glumshoe:

theancientwayoflife:

~ Heart Scarab of Hatnefer.
Period: New Kingdom,18th Dynasty, early
Reign: Thutmose II–Early Joint reign
Date: ca. 1492–1473 B.C.
Place of origin: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb of Hatnefer and Ramose (below TT 71), Mummy of Hatnefer, MMA excavations, 1935–36
Medium: Serpentinite, gold.

Translation of the spell inscribed, copied from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website:

• “Heart of my mother, heart of my mother, heart of my (actual) being, do not rise up against me as a witness; do not contend against me in the court of judgment; do not make opposition against me in the presence of the keeper of the balance. You are my bodily ka, a Khnum who has invigorated my limbs. When you ascend to the perfection from which we have come, do not cause our names to stink to the entourage who create mankind in their proper stations, but rather may it go well with us and with the listener, so that the judge may rejoice. Do not devise lies against me in the presence of the god, for your reckoning is at hand.”