Book of Abraham facsimiles

(Note that the following is quite old juvenile work of mine… I've cut out some of the text but it mostly stands as a relic. I shan't necessarily answer for it.)

Disclaimer: I am neither an Egyptologist nor a prophet.

My version of facsimile number 1 from the Book of Abraham. This version assumes that the interpretations are inspired but the reconstructions not necessarily so. Basically, I have transplanted the head from the priest to the angel (so it now has a face - and is a representation of an angel rather than e.g. the Holy Spirit) and drawn a jackel's head on the priest (so he is wearing a ceremonial mask officiating as a god, pardon my drawing). I have kept a knife in the middle of the lacuna as this harmonises best with both supportive and critical witnesses of the papyri (see below) as well as the interpretation - anything drawn there must needs be somehow preconceived as it is in the middle of a big hole with no clues on the remains itself. Some eyewitnesses on both sides of the debate apparently witnessed a knife which is actually missing from the backing-paper sketches... so it may have been there when JS had the papyri. The bottom of the mask is just visible - but check this out - could it be a hawk mask? Update: I have now adjusted the pattern on the side of the lion couch to match that given in the papyrus (I am using the 1851 version as my base for Facsimile 1 for aesthetic reasons, so the side was originally just vertically single-hashed). I have also corrected the hashing of the kilt to go in both directions depending on the leg (as with the original version). Update 2: I have made more accuracy adjustments, restoring content from the apparent original cut (see http://nathanrichardson.com/2011/09/the-book-of-abraham-facsimiles-in-high-resolution/) and adjusting more details to match the papyrus where applicable; the image to the right is representative of my base image with adjustments to match applicable earlier sources applied but no other edits made.

My version of facsimile number 2 from the Book of Abraham. (I am less satisfied with this one than with the above, by the way.) This version assumes that the interpretations are inspired but the reconstructions not necessarily so. Content from this CC-BY-SA hypocephalus image was used as the basis for figures 1 and 3 and for the unnumbered figure above figure 3. Figure 3 has four criteria discernible from the interpretation: (1) a seated figure holding (2) a sceptre with (3) a floating halo-disc above its head and (4) an eye of Horus. The latter can be determined given the interpretation of figure 7. I simply kept the eye of Horus in favour over the scarab, as I determined that it was presumably there originally (there is an eye of Horus at the end of the staff (though this is omitted in some erroneous copies) in Facsimile 2 and a scarab in the same location in the entirely-parallel section of this hypocephalus - this does suggest that the figure 3 in the canonical facsimile is kinda facing the wrong direction). Apparent filler text is in red:

The same but with what is supposed to be part of this reconstruction in place of some of the filler text. I doubt that my attempt of inserting this is 100% correct - I prioritised not looking out of place (hence I tried to build it from existing content where possible):