A name and a job. Nothing else survives — and that is the finding, not a gap in our work.
Ami-haf
a single index line pointing at one page
Overview
The whole of him, in this archive, is four characters and a page number:
Ami-haf, 342 [budge-1901v3]
That is the index to Budge's Book of the Dead vol. III, and it is the only occurrence of the name in eighteen archived sources. The page it points at is not in the archived text — these volumes were scanned as running text without a page grid the corpus can navigate, so the reference survives and the referent does not.
What the prefix tells you, and what it does not
Ami- — "he who is in" — is one of the most productive name-elements in the Book of the Dead, and the index page around him is full of it: Ami-seshet the Fire-god, Ami-unnut-f, Am-khent the priest, Am-Nit the god, Am-mit.
Look at that run carefully. It contains a god Budge labels as such (Am-Nit), a god identified by function (Ami-seshet the Fire-god), the devourer of the dead (Am-mit, = ammit), and a human priestly office (Am-khent, the priest).
Four kinds of thing, one prefix, one column of the same index. This is the epithet trap in its purest form (see the epithet trap, form 6): Ami-haf is built the way a god's name is built, and so is the title of a man who works in a temple. Budge marks two of these entries with what they are and leaves the rest bare. This one is bare.
So the grade is ○ name-only rather than ⚠ audit: there is no evidence he is not a god, and none that he is. He is a name the index vouches for and nothing else does.
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-1901v3] | *Book of the Dead* III, index | "**Ami-haf, 342**" — the name and a page reference, nothing more |
Sources
[budge-1901v3]— Budge, The Book of the Dead (1901), vol. III. Public domain, archived. The index is navigable; the paginated body is not, which is the whole reason this entry stops here.
Open questions
- Read BD III p. 342. This is the one thing that would move the entry, and it is a
- Note what shares the page. The same index gives "Am-mehet, the, 241, 342" — the
- Am-mehet is on p. 342 as well. Two names, one page: if they are in the same passage,
- Is haf the serpent? Hfꜣw is a common word for snake. If so the name reads roughly
- serpents carried rather than fought. A guess, flagged as one.
Cite this entry
Research grade: ○name-only — A name and a function in a spell list. That is all that survives.
"Ami-haf", The Egyptian God Corpus,
graded name-only, retrieved 2026-08-10.