Iunmutef iwn-mwt=f

The attestation

One formula, spoken twice for the king — Pyr. §1593a and §1603a, the same spell repeated:

1593a. The doors stand fast upon thee like Inmutef; 1593b. they open not to the West; they open not to the East; 1593c. they open not to the North; they open not to the South; 1593d. they open not to those who are in the middle of the land; 1594a. (but) they are open to Horus. [mercer-1952]

Two hits, one attestation (C384, C436). And note what kind of occurrence it is: a simile. The doors are not guarded by Inmutef; they stand fast like him. The name explains the comparison itself — iwn is "pillar," the whole name "Pillar of his Mother," and doors stand fast the way a pillar does. The oldest use of this name on the shelf is the name working as an image of firmness, in a spell whose doors then open to Horus — the god the census makes Iunmutef an aspect of.

The two census rows, and what each shelf says

The census carries this name twice: an-mut-f (Budge-era spelling) and iunmutef (modern spelling, glossed "an ancient Egyptian deity and an aspect of Horus").

• an-mut-f was audited on Budge's evidence: there, An-mut-f is **a

priestly title held by living men** — the epithet trap, form 6 (C347). That audit stands; it is what Budge's books attest.

• This row now holds the Old Kingdom evidence: the name in the Pyramid Texts, **a thousand

years before Budge's priests**, used as a byword — neither clearly a god nor clearly an office.

The corpus keeps both findings and rules on neither, because the honest reading is that the name is old, its referent shifted, and this shelf catches it at two moments without the moment in between. Whether the priestly office was named after a divine figure, or the "god" is a ritual role divinized, is the standard Iunmutef question — and a simile plus a job title cannot settle it.