object

Balance scale

Objects

A named equal-arm weighing beam of long practice across many houses. Not a steelyard, not a touchstone, and not a generic scale dump.

Also known as Equal-arm balance · Beam balance

Egyptian religion

  • Balance scale is used in Egyptian religion.

    The Book of the Dead places the balance in the weighing of the heart against the feather. A named equal-arm scale used in that funerary judgment scene, not a steelyard and not a market dump alone.

    from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972

    used in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Book of the Dead · Raymond O. Faulkner (translation)

    Raymond O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.