Neb Khert-ta

Investigated claims

Working material — not established fact.

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Name elements. Egyptian divine names are strongly compositional, and this one appears to contain recognised elements: neb — lord, master; khert — the necropolis, that which is below; ta — land, earth. On that reading the name would describe a function or a location rather than serve as a personal name — which is common, and which raises the possibility that this is an epithet of a known deity rather than an independent god (see 05-TRANSLITERATION.md, the epithet trap). The glosses above are conventional approximations of Budge-era transliterations and have not been checked against a grammar.

What would settle any of the above: the Amduat and Book of Gates rosters [budge-1905], the Book of the Dead spell list [budge-1901], and — decisively — a search of Leitz's Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen [lgg], which indexes divine names and epithets on a scale nothing else approaches.

Group: the Seventh Division of the Tuat — one of the Twelve Goddesses of the Hours, each shown facing right with a star on her head [budge-1905].

Under the companies rule (C246) this is a pointer rather than an entry: the sources name the member and describe only the company.