Source
breasted-1912
Breasted, Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt. Public domain, archived. He quotes the Pyramid Texts in translation with paragraph numbers, and the numbers immediately around this line (§§1266–7, §251) belong to the neighbouring quotations; the citation for the Kherti sentence itself is not cleanly recoverable from the scan.
20 attestations across 10 entries rest on this source — 2% of every attestation in the corpus.
What rests on it
If this source were withdrawn, these are the claims that would need re-sourcing. That is the point of listing them.
| Entry | Locus | Attests |
|---|---|---|
| Bata ●full | on the Tale of the Two Brothers | Anubis and Bata as **gods of Kasa** "at an enormously remote date," pictured as peasants |
| Bata ●full | correcting Naville | **Bata on a tablet of Menes** — First Dynasty — read from a *bꜣ*-bird with a *t* |
| Bata ●full | same passage | the motif's later appearance "in the Hebrew tradition of Joseph in Egypt" |
| Djedefhor ◐partial | Song of the Harper | "a royal prince, son of Khufu of Gizeh"; a century after Imhotep; "proverbial wise men a thousand years after they had passed away" |
| Heryshaf ◐partial | *Development of Religion and Thought*, quoting the Amon hymn | "at Heracleopolis he had become **Harsaphes**," beside Atum at Heliopolis and Ptah at Memphis |
| Imhotep ●full | on the Song of the Harper | vizier, chief architect and wise man under Zoser, IIIrd Dynasty; "the father of stone architecture"; builder of the Sakkara terraced pyramid |
| Imhotep ●full | Song of the Harper | "I have heard the words of **Imhotep and Hardedef**"; both "proverbial wise men a thousand years after they had passed away" |
| Khenti-Amentiu ⚠audit | reporting **Eduard Meyer** | "Osiris is **never** identified with Khenti-Amentiu in the Pyramid Texts" |
| Khenti-Amentiu ⚠audit | Breasted's own reply | concedes the names are "not placed side by side… in the Pyramid Texts, as they are so commonly later"; argues "essential identity" |
| Khenti-Amentiu ⚠audit | index | Khenti-Amentiu, "First of the Westerners," pp. 38, 143 |
| Kherty ○name-only | *Development of Religion and Thought*, ch. on the Osirianization of the hereafter, p. 142 | "He has freed king **Teti** from **Kherti**, he has not given him to Osiris," quoted from the Pyramid Texts |
| Mafdet ○name-only | quoting **Pyr. Ut. 338** | the king's harpoon, "whose points are the rays of the sun, **whose barbs are the claws of Mafdet**" |
| Mafdet ○name-only | footnote to the same | "see also **Ut. 339, 340, 400, 438**" — four further loci, unquoted |
| Mafdet ○name-only | index | "Mafdet: **deity**, 133" |
| Mnevis ◐partial | on Akhenaten's reforms, citing Davies, *Amarna* V p. 30 | the decree for the **burial of Mnevis at Amarna** — "clearly a compromise with the Heliopolitan priests" |
| Neferhotep ⚠audit | *Development of Religion and Thought*, on Old Kingdom mortuary endowments | **queen Neferhotepes**, whose daily income of loaves and oil Sahure diverted to the noble **Persen** |
| Neferhotep ⚠audit | *ibid.*, on the Song of the Harper | the "**divine father (priest) of Amon, Neferhotep**," at Thebes — the second version of the song is in his tomb |
| Neferhotep ⚠audit | *ibid.* | the quoted lines: "the bodies pass away… generations come into their places"; "Re shows himself at early morn, Atum goes to rest in Manu" |
| Sokar ⚠audit | *Development of Religion and Thought*, on Truth/Righteousness | **"one of the old mortuary gods of Memphis, Sokar, possessed a barque… the 'Barque of Truth'"** — an independent god with cult property |
| Sokar ⚠audit | same, citing a Pyramid Text of **Pepi** | the dead king's tongue compared to the divinity of that barque — Sixth Dynasty attestation |