We could not trace this name to a source we trust. The page is the investigation.
Neb-pehti
audit verdict: this is a door
What was found
It is the left-hand leaf of a door.
The Hall of Double Right and Truth — where the dead address the forty-two assessors — has a door at each end, and each leaf of the door has a name the deceased must know and speak before being admitted. Budge describes the vignette directly:
At each end is a door; that on the right is called "Neb-Maat-heri-tep-retui-f," and that on the left "Neb-pehti-thesu-menmenet." [budge-1895]
There is no god called Neb-pehti. There is a door-leaf called Neb-pehti-thesu-menmenet, and the census took the first two elements of its name.
Budge's index confirms the name is a single unit and never occurs shortened:
Neb-Maat-heri-tep-retui-f, 365 · Neb-pehti-ḳesu-menmenet, 365 [budge-1901v3]
and in Gods of the Egyptians:
Neb-pehti-thesu-menmenet, i. 418 · Neb-pehtet-petpet-seba, ii. 332 [budge-1904]
Two different Neb-pehti- compounds, neither ever standing alone. Four occurrences across three books, and all four are the same door.
What the census claims
A goddess
Why the door has a name at all
This is not an oddity — it is the mechanism of the chapter. Having satisfied the forty-two assessors, the dead person still cannot leave: he must know the magical names of the various parts of the door, and address them one at a time. The lintel, the leaves, the bolt, the socket, the threshold each answer to a name.
Egyptian funerary religion names its architecture, and a name is not a person. That is the whole finding, and it generalises: any list of Egyptian "deities" assembled by scraping names out of these chapters will contain furniture.
Verdict — identified, not a deity
In plain English: somebody read the name of a door and filed it as a goddess. The identification is secure — the source describes the door, draws it, and names both leaves in one sentence.
This is the epithet trap in a new form — see the Epithet Trap, which sets out all seven with worked examples. The corpus has tracked six: title × roster (C290); compound first element indexed as a name (C300); an element used both ways (C310); variant collision in search (C336); toponym + feminine ending (C343); priestly office read as a deity (C347). This is the seventh — a named object or piece of architecture read as a deity (C394). See also ur-heka, found the same batch and the same way.
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-1895] | *Papyrus of Ani*, plates XXXI–XXXII, BD ch. CXXV | the Hall of Double Right and Truth; a door at each end; the left called **Neb-pehti-thesu-menmenet**, the right **Neb-Maat-heri-tep-retui-f** |
[budge-1904] | *Gods of the Egyptians* I, p. 418 | the two door-leaf names, with **Anubis** guarding the entrance door and the lintel called **Khersek-Shu**; the names "had to be learnt and uttered by the deceased before he was allowed to enter" |
[budge-1901v3] | *Book of the Dead* III, index, p. 365 | both leaf-names indexed as single units |
[budge-1904] | *Gods of the Egyptians* II, index | **Neb-pehti-thesu-menmenet** and the distinct **Neb-pehtet-petpet-seba** — no bare *Neb-pehti* |
Sources
[budge-1895]— Budge, The Book of the Dead: Papyrus of Ani. Public domain, archived. Describes the vignette and names both leaves.[budge-1904],[budge-1901v3]— Budge, The Gods of the Egyptians (1904) and The Book of the Dead III (1901). Public domain, archived.
Open questions
- Name the rest of the door. Budge says the deceased had to know the names of "the various parts"; this entry has the two leaves and the lintel (Khersek-Shu). The full set is in BD 125's closing address and would make a good page.
- How many other census names are furniture? This one was caught by reading the passage. A systematic pass over the ⚠ audit and marginal tiers looking for compound fragments is now worth doing — the door names alone could account for several.
- Menmenet — the third element. If it means "cattle" or "herd," as it does elsewhere, the leaf's name is a sentence and worth translating whole.
Cite this entry
Research grade: ⚠audit — Attestation could not be verified. This entry is the audit.
This entry should not be cited as a description of a deity. It records an unverified name and the state of the investigation into it.
"Neb-pehti", The Egyptian God Corpus,
graded audit, retrieved 2026-08-10.