未命名的心脏圣甲虫 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	未命名的心脏圣甲虫
品名（英）	Uninscribed Heart Scarab
入馆年号	1930年，30.8.1076
策展部门	埃及艺术（Egyptian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 1070 - 公元前 664
创作地区	来自于: 埃及（From: Egypt）
分类
尺寸	长 5.6 × 宽 4.3 × 高 2.1 厘米 (2 3/16 × 1 11/16 × 13/16 英寸)
介绍（中）	虽然这个例子没有被描述，但它的大小和样式将其识别为"心脏"圣甲虫，意在放置在木乃伊的包装内。许多这样的圣甲虫都带有《亡灵书》第30B章的文字，其中主人要求自己的心不要在奥西里斯审判或心脏称重时作证在死亡之神奥西里斯王国的两真相大厅举行的审判中，心脏将与玛特女神的象征进行权衡，玛特女神是埃及宇宙正常秩序的化身。如果死者过着合乎道德的生活，从而维护了宇宙秩序，那么他将被允许与奥西里斯永远在一起。如果心脏不平衡，表明它的主人并没有按照玛特的说法生活，它就会被喂食一种叫做Ammut的怪物，而这个人将永远死去根据《亡灵书》的指示，这只圣甲虫是由一块绿色石头制成的。这里也可以看到镀金的痕迹。
介绍（英）	Although this example is uninscribed, its size and style identify it as a "heart" scarab, meant to be placed within the wrappings of the mummy. Many such scarabs bear the text of Chapter 30B of the Book of the Dead, in which the owner asks his or her heart not to testify against them at the Judgment before Osiris, or Weighing of the Heart. At the judgment, which took place in the Hall of Two Truths in the realm of the god of the dead, Osiris, the heart would be weighed against the symbol of the goddess Maat, embodiment of the proper order of the Egyptian cosmos. If the deceased had lived an ethical life and thus upheld the order of the cosmos, he would be allowed to live forever in the company of Osiris. If the heart was did not balance, showing that its owner had not lived according to Maat, it was fed to a monstrous creature called Ammut, and the person would die forever. This scarab is made of a green stone, as instructed in the Book of the Dead. Traces of gilding can be seen here as well.