[Illustration: PLATE I. Ḥer-Ḥeru, the first priest-king, and Queen Netchemet standing in the Hall of Osiris and praying to the god whilst the heart of the Queen is being weighed in the Balance. XXIst dynasty, about B.C. 1050. [Southern Egyptian Gallery, No. 758.] Presented by His Majesty the King, 1903.] [Illustration: Vignette and Chapter of the Book of the Dead written in hieratic for Ḥeru-em-ḥeb. XXVIth dynasty, or later. [Brit. Mus., No. 10,257.]] Out of the Theban Recension grew =another Recension=, to which no special name has been given. It was written on papyrus both in hieroglyphics and hieratic, and its Chapters have no fixed order. It came into existence in the XXth dynasty, probably under the growing influence of the priests of Ȧmen. Fine examples of the papyri of this Recension are the =Papyrus of Queen Netchemet= (see =Plate I=), the wife of Ḥer-Ḥeru, the first high priest-king of the XXIst dynasty (exhibited in the Southern Egyptian Gallery), and the =Papyrus of Ȧnhai=, a priestess of Ȧmen.[15] In the latter an entirely new style of decoration is employed, and gold is used in decorating the disk of Rā Harmachis for the first time. Of the history of the Book of the Dead between B.C. 1000 and 650 little is known. Under the influence of the great renaissance, which took place in the XXVIth dynasty, another Recension came into use, called the =Saïte=. In this the chapters had a fixed order, many new ones being inserted. The text was written both in hieroglyphics and hieratic, and it was decorated with a series of vignettes, in which all the figures were drawn in black outline. The appearance of papyri of this Recension is monotonous and dull, and both the drawings and the hieroglyphics are stiff and spiritless. Good examples of papyri of this Recension are the =Papyrus of Ḥeru-em-ḥeb=, written in hieratic (No. 10,257), and the Papyrus of Ḥeru, written in hieroglyphics (No. 10,479). The vignettes usually occupy small spaces at the top of the columns of text. The Recension in use in the Ptolemaïc Period was the Saïte, but before the Roman Period it was customary to write other and newer funerary works on papyri, and little by little the Book of the Dead, as a whole, became obsolete. It seems as if an attempt was made to extract from the old work the texts which were regarded as absolutely necessary for salvation, and as if the older mythology was unknown to the Egyptians of the period. It is quite certain that many of the scribes copied texts without understanding them, and that the meanings of many vignettes were lost.