The Egyptian Book of the dead by P. Le Page Renouf and Edouard Naville

19. This Devourer has the same functions as the strange animal called

⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ _Âmemit_ in the pictures of the Psychostasia. The later scholia add that the Devourer comes from the ‘basin of Punit,’ the Red sea. They add other names, ⁂⁂⁂⁂ _Mâtes_ ‘Flint,’ “stationed at the gate of Amenta,” and ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ or ⁂ _Baba_, who, in ch. 63, 2, is described as the first born of Osiris. He is a terrible god from whom the deceased prays in ch. 125, 36, to be delivered. His name implies ‘one who searches or probes thoroughly,’ as a digger or miner. And such are his functions at the judgment of the dead. Instead of ⁂⁂ _tesem_, a ‘hound,’ _La_ reads ⁂⁂⁂⁂ _sȧu_, a sheep.