Part of a funerary papyrus showing the judgment before Osiris ca. 230-150 BC Ptolemaic Period This fragment from a larger papyrus depicts the ritual of the Weighing of the Heart, in which the deceased demonstrated that he or she had lived an ethical life. Also known as the Judgment Before Osiris, this trial took place in the Netherworld, in the Hall of the Two Truths. The architecture of this chamber is defined by two papyrus columns topped by a cavetto cornice. The top of the cornice is protected by alternating ostrich plumes, the hieroglyphs for ma'at, or truth, braziers representing fire, and rearing cobras. Two baboons, representing the god of writing, Thoth, sit on either end of the roof, each with a scale that identifies the purpose of the hall.Two figures of the goddess Maat, embodiments of the proper order of the Egyptian cosmos, lead the deceased into the hall. To the left, Osiris sits on a throne inside a small kiosk, with the Four Sons of Horus(deities who protected the mumm