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.
Maa-an-f
the 20th assessor
Overview
One of the forty-two assessors who hear the Negative Confession in the hall of the Two Truths. This one comes forth from the Temple of Amsu, and the sin denied before them is committed any sin against purity.
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
In Budge's 1901 translation of the same papyrus, declaration 20 runs:
"Hail, thou who lookest upon what is brought to him, who comest forth from the Temple of Amsu, I have not committed any sin against purity." [budge-1901]
Budge translates the address rather than transliterating it there; the name Maa-an-f comes from his 1904 list of the assessors, drawn from the same sheet of the same papyrus [budge-1904].
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. 20 | the Egyptian name |
[budge-1901] | BD 125, declaration 20 | the home town and the sin judged |
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.
Cite this entry
Research grade: ○name-only — A name and a function in a spell list. That is all that survives.
"Maa-an-f", The Egyptian God Corpus,
graded name-only, retrieved 2026-08-10.