Maat

Maat is both the goddess and the personification of truth, cosmic balance, and justice. Her ostrich feather represents the truth.

Maat Media

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  Statue of Maat, adorned with the ostrich feather of truth

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  Maat wearing the feather of truth

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  Winged Maat, depicted in The Tomb of Nefertari (1255 BCE)

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  The heart of Hunefer weighed against the feather of Maat

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  A section of the Book of the Dead showing the Weighing of the Heart in the Duat using the feather of Maat as the measure in balance

• Some of the 42 Judges of Maat are visible, seated and in small size. Maat's feather of truth depicted in the bottom right corner. British Museum, London.

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  Statuette of a kneeling man, maybe a priest, offering a small Maat figure. Bronze with agemina. Third Intermediate Period/Late Period

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  Ancient artisans’ village Deir el-Medina in Upper Egypt

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  Relief of Maat in east upstairs. Temple of Edfu, Upper Egypt