Book of the Dead of Neferini (hieratic)

Books of the Dead exist since the beginning of the New Kingdom (around 1500. Chr.). In the full edition more than 200 chapters have been preserved, but frequently habe been confined to the main statements. The Book of the Dead has been given to the dead in the form of a papyrus roll or individual chapters written on linen cloths were wrapped in the mummy. The claims should help the deceased, to find his way into the underworld and to behave correctly against its inhabitants, gods and demons, so that he could live as a 'transfigured' among them.
Not a single Book of the Dead is missing chapter 125 containing the so-called 'Negative Confession'. In this, the deceased justifies before the 42 judging deities by affirming to having refrained from all sins. The scene shows the judgment of the dead: the deceased is carried to the scale on which the heart (drawn as a pot) is counterbalanced to the Goddess Maat, presented as a squatting woman with a feather on her head. If the deceased lived according to Maat, the world order, Osiris, the mummiform underworld god, will welcome him as justified in the Hereafter. If he does not pass the examination, the great Eater (Fresserin), a monster consisting of crocodile head, lion front and hippopotamus rump, will eat up the heart definitively. Since for the Egyptians each presentation reflects the reality, it is always a positive outcome of the jugdement which was shown, so that, with the help of this papyrus, the deceased could safely enter into the underworld and reach eternal life.