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"...
They tightly swathed the broken body in linen
bandages, and when they performed over it the rites
that thereafter were to be continued in Egypt in the
ceremonial burial of kings, Isis fanned the
corpse with her wings and
Osiris
revived, to become the ruler of the dead. He now
sits majestically in the underworld, in the Hall of
the Two Truths, assisted by forty-two assessors, one
from each of the principal districts of Egypt; and
there he judges the souls of the dead ..."
(Campbell)
 The 42 assessors
are sitting in two lines at the top of the picture,
21 in each line. |