Neb-Uast
a standing god with a sceptre, Seventh Division
Identified
Group: the figures of the Seventh Division of the Tuat, called Thephet-Asar [budge-1905]. Budge's numbered walk through the register:
11. The god Neb-Uast, standing, and holding a sceptre in his right hand. 12. The goddess Seth-ab (?).
And immediately after, opening the upper register: 1. The god Shepes, in mummied form, seated, holding "some curved object, which resembles a boomerang" · 2. The goddess Atii, with the head of a lioness, holding the symbol of life in her right hand and a sceptre in her left · 3. The uraeus Ankhuithit, with the head of a woman.
Standing, right hand, sceptre. That is the whole of him, and it is more than most figures in these registers get — a posture and an object.
Under the companies rule (C246) this is a pointer rather than an entry.
The division he stands in
The Seventh is where the slaughters of Apep are performed, and the passage just before him carries one of the Am-Tuat's efficacy clauses:
Whosoever shall make [a copy of] these [pictures] according to the similitudes which are in writing at the northern side of the hidden palace in the Tuat, they shall act for him that maketh them as magical protectors in heaven and in earth. Whosoever knoweth them shall be as the Spirits with Ra. [budge-1905]
The register he belongs to is one of the ones the reader is told to copy. Knowing these figures by sight and name is the point of drawing them — which is why they are named at all, and why a list of them ends up looking like a pantheon.
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-1905] | *Book of Am-Tuat* I, **Seventh Division (Thephet-Asar)**, p. 147 | **Neb-Uast**, no. 11, **standing, a sceptre in his right hand**; **Seth-ab (?)** at no. 12 |
[budge-1905] | *ibid.*, immediately preceding | the efficacy clause — copies of these figures act as "**magical protectors in heaven and in earth**"; "whosoever knoweth them shall be as the Spirits with Ra" |
[budge-1906] | *Egyptian Heaven and Hell* I | the same passage in a second scan |
Sources
[budge-1905]— Budge, The Book of Am-Tuat (1905), vol. I. Public domain, archived.[budge-1906]— Budge, The Egyptian Heaven and Hell (1906), vol. I, alternative scan. Public domain, archived. Independently confirms the reading.
Open questions
- What is Uast? The element is the name of Thebes (Uast/Waset). If Neb-Uast is "lord of Thebes," this is a title and not a name — trap form 1 or 5; see the Epithet Trap. Test it. A Theban title in a Theban underworld book would not be surprising.
- Seth-ab (?), Atii, Ankhuithit — his neighbours in the register, none of them in the census (C397). Atii is lioness-headed, Ankhuithit is a woman-headed uraeus; both are describable and neither has an entry.
- Establish whether the sceptre is a specific type. Budge says only "a sceptre."
Cite this entry
Research grade: ⇄duplicate — A second spelling or roster listing of a name entered elsewhere.
"Neb-Uast", The Egyptian God Corpus,
graded duplicate, retrieved 2026-08-10.