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.
Neba-per-em-khetkhet
the 8th 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 [thou] goest back, and the sin denied before them is purloined the things which belong unto God.
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 8 runs:
"Hail, thou Flame, who comest forth from [thou] goest back, I have not purloined the things which belong unto God." [budge-1901]
Budge translates the address rather than transliterating it there; the name Neba-per-em-khetkhet 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. 8 | the Egyptian name |
[budge-1901] | BD 125, declaration 8 | 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.
"Neba-per-em-khetkhet", The Egyptian God Corpus,
graded name-only, retrieved 2026-08-10.