Anubis
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Anubis, also known as Inpu, Inpw, Jnpw, or Anpu in Ancient Egyptian, is the god of funerary rites, protector of graves, and guide to the underworld in ancient Egyptian religion, usually depicted as a
Anubis attending the mummy of the deceased.
The Opening of the Mouth ceremony being performed on a mummy before the tomb. Anubis attending the mummy of the deceased. Extract from the Papyrus of Hunefer, a 19th-Dynasty Book of the Dead (c. 1300 BC)
The "weighing of the heart," from the book of the dead of Hunefer. Anubis is portrayed as guiding the deceased forward and manipulating the scales, under the scrutiny of the ibis-headed Thoth.
Anubis in a fully humanoid form, Ramesses II temple, Abydos, Egypt.
Ammit
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Ammit was an ancient Egyptian goddess with the forequarters of a lion, the hindquarters of a hippopotamus, and the head of a crocodile—the three largest "man-eating" animals known to ancient Egyptians
Depiction of Ammit without a mane from the Book of the Dead of Nebqed. c. 1391–1353 BCE, late Eighteenth Dynasty.
Ammit showed at the Weighing of Ani's heart from the Papyrus of Ani. c. 1250 BCE, Nineteenth Dynasty.
Ptolemaic depiction of Ammit standing on top of a pedestal left of the scale. She has the head of crocodile, the mane of a lion, and the body of a dog. From a Book of the Dead papyrus (c. 2nd century BCE) in Thebes.
Wall carving of Ammit on a pedestal in a scene depicting the Judgment of the Dead from the Temple of Hathor in Deir el-Medina