Ammit
c. 2000 BCE – 300 CEattested
Thebes, Egypt
- Egyptian
Crocodile, lion and hippopotamus, waiting beside the scales where the heart is weighed. Not a punisher but a full stop: whatever she eats simply ceases.
Known for
- devourer of the dead
- beside the scales
- annihilation, not torment
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.