A name and a job. Nothing else survives — and that is the finding, not a gap in our work. Arrives with the Book of the Dead.
Ahi-mu
the 37th assessor
Overview
One of the forty-two assessors who hear the Negative Confession in the hall of the Two Truths. The town this assessor comes forth from and the sin denied before them are not yet recovered: the 1901 anthology prints only the first twenty-five declarations, and this is not among them.
That is the whole of the attested record: a name, a position in the roster, and — where the text survives — a town and one sin. There is no myth, no cult, and no independent iconography. The entry stays this length until a further attestation is found.
What the texts say
The name Ahi-mu appears as number 37 in Budge's list of the forty-two assessors, taken from the Papyrus of Nebseni [budge-1904]. The corresponding declaration — the town and the specific sin — awaits a complete public-domain witness to the spell.
The record
Every claim above traces to a row here. Source, exact place in that source, and what it actually supports.
| Source | Locus | Attests |
|---|---|---|
[budge-1904] | *Gods of the Egyptians* I, assessor list, no. 37 | the Egyptian name and position in the roster |
Sources
[budge-1904]— Budge, The Gods of the Egyptians, Vol. I (1904). Public domain. Budge caveat applies (04-BIBLIOGRAPHY.md); this is a transcribed name list, which is where he is most dependable.[budge-1901]— Budge, trans., Egyptian Literature (1901). Public domain.
Open questions
- Compare against other witnesses (Papyrus of Ani, Papyrus of Nu, the Turin recension); assessor names and order vary between copies.
- Confirm whether this is an independent being or an epithet of a known god.
- The scan of the 1904 list damaged this name; the reading here is an OCR repair, recorded in
scripts/extract-assessor-names.py. Confirm against the page image. - Budge himself marks this reading with a query.
Cite this entry
Research grade: ○name-only — A name and a function in a spell list. That is all that survives.
"Ahi-mu", The Egyptian God Corpus,
graded name-only, retrieved 2026-08-10.