Editing Ammit (section)

== Iconography ==
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[[File:Early Ammit.jpg|thumb|Depiction of Ammit without a [[Lion#Mane|mane]] from the ''[[Book of the Dead]]'' of Nebqed. c. 1391–1353 BCE, late [[Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt|Eighteenth Dynasty]].|left]]
Ammit is denoted as a female entity, commonly depicted with the head of a [[crocodile]], the forelegs and upper body of a [[lion]] (or [[leopard]]<ref name="hart"/><ref name="wilkinson" />{{Refn|Cf. one depiction in Egyptian Book of the Dead, Papyrus of Ani, Chapter 30B (Pl. 3), where Ammit is shown with a torso of spotted fur (See [[#ammit ani|image right]]).{{sfnp|Von Dassow|2008|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=La9K8fp-BcMC&pg=PA167 Pl. 3]}}}}), and the hind legs and lower body of a [[hippopotamus]].<ref name="wilkinson" /> The combination of three deadly animals of the Nile: crocodile, lion, and hippopotamus, suggests that no one can escape annihilation, even in the [[afterlife]].<ref name="hart" /> She is part lioness,<ref name="venit"/> but her leonine features may present in the form of a [[Lion#Mane|mane]],{{Refn|Cf. Depiction on the Papyrus of Hunefer, Dyn. XIX, British Museum (shown [[#hunefer pic|right]]). A line drawing of the creature in the papyrus is given by Hart.<ref name="hart"/>}}<ref name="gibson"/> which is usually associated with male lions. In the [[Papyrus of Ani]], Ammit is adorned with a tri-colored [[nemes]],{{Refn|"mane that hangs down like a tripartite wig" on a burial shroud, [[Royal Ontario Museum]].<ref name="gibson"/>}}{{sfnp|Von Dassow|2008|p=155}} which were worn by [[pharaoh]]s as a symbol of kingship.
[[File:Ammit BD.jpg|thumb|Ammit showed at the Weighing of Ani's heart from the [[Papyrus of Ani]]. c. 1250 BCE, [[Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt|Nineteenth Dynasty]].]]
Versions of the ''[[Book of the Dead]]'' from the [[New Kingdom of Egypt|New Kingdom]] started to include Ammit.<ref name="taylor2019" /> During the [[Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt|eighteenth dynasty]], the crocodile-lion-hippopotamus hybrid was the conventional depiction of Ammit. She appeared in scenes showing the [[Ancient Egyptian afterlife beliefs#Judgment of the dead|Judgment of the Dead]], in [[tomb]]s and [[Ancient Egyptian funerary texts|funerary]] [[Papyrus|papyri]]. In this scene, Ammit is shown with other [[Ancient Egyptian deities|Egyptian gods]] in [[Duat]], waiting to learn if she can consume the [[Ancient Egyptian conception of the soul#Ib (heart)|heart]] of the deceased.<ref name="taylor2019" /> A stylistic shift occurred, during the [[Third Intermediate Period of Egypt|Third Intermediate Period]]. Around the [[Twenty-first Dynasty of Egypt|twenty-first dynasty]], the Judgment of the Dead scene was painted on the interior and exterior of [[Ancient Egyptian funerary practices#Coffins|coffins]]. The coffin lid of [[Ankhhor|Ankh-hor]], a chief from the [[Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt|twenty-second dynasty]] featured Ammit bearing the head of a hippopotamus, and the body of a [[dog]] with rows of paps.<ref name="taylor2019" /><ref name="spieser" />{{Refn|Cf. Egyptian Book of the Dead, Papyrus of Ani, Chapter 148 (Pl. 11), where the aspect of the Guardian of the Fifth Pylon/Portal,{{sfnp|Von Dassow|2008|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=La9K8fp-BcMC&pg=PA95 Pl. 11]}} (Hentet-Arqiu), is assumed by Ammit, and she is illustrated as a "monstrous female demon with hippopotamus body and head, pendulous breasts, lion legs and crocodile snout, squatting, with open jaws and tongue extended, forepaws, holding huge knife,.."<ref name="ARAS-ani-pl11"/>}}While the [[Papyrus]] of Nes-min (ca. 300–250 BCE) from the [[Ptolemaic Kingdom|Ptolemaic Period]], portrayed Ammit with the head of a crocodile, and the body of a dog.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Peck |first=William H. |date=2000 |title=The Papyrus of Nes-min: An Egyptian Book of the Dead |journal=Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts |volume=74 |issue=1/2 |pages=20–31 |doi=10.1086/DIA41504961 |jstor=41504961 |s2cid=165731702 |issn=0011-9636 }}</ref>