Nebt-Au-Khenti-Tuat

Investigated claims

Working material — not established fact.

Working material — not established fact. This section records claims and working hypotheses that have not yet been confirmed against a dated primary source or peer-reviewed scholarship. It is provided to show the current state of an open investigation, and it is expected to change: statements here may be revised, reattributed, or withdrawn entirely as research proceeds. Nothing in this section should be cited as established, and it carries none of the authority of the attested sections above. Where a claim is later confirmed, it moves out of this section and into the entry proper with its citation.

Name elements. Egyptian divine names are strongly compositional, and this one appears to contain recognised elements: nebt — lady, mistress; khenti — foremost of, chief of; tuat — the Tuat, the underworld. 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.

Classification lead. The description supplied by the aggregate list would make this an underworld being. If that is right, the place to look is the Amduat and the Book of Gates name lists [budge-1905], data/amduat-hours.json.

Classification lead. The description supplied by the aggregate list would make this a deity in animal or animal-headed form. If that is right, the place to look is iconographic surveys and the relevant temple reliefs.

Classification lead. The description supplied by the aggregate list would make this an hour-deity of the day or night barque. If that is right, the place to look is the Litany of Re [naville-1875] and the Amduat [budge-1905].

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 Ninth Division companies — named in the Ninth Division of the Tuat.

Under the companies rule (C246) this name does not get an individual entry beyond this pointer: the sources give one description for the whole company and nothing that distinguishes this member from the others. The full roster is on the group page.