Amu was a place in the north of Egypt, which Brugsch thinks he has identified with a town called Apis (the site of which is itself doubtful).
The most interesting thing known about Amu (Dümichen, Rec. de M., IV, Pl. XV, 90 a), is that in the rites performed on the 16 Choiak, Horus is represented as raising up the body of Osiris out of the water in the form of a crocodile; and that Osiris was known under the name of
, The Crocodile, Lord of Amu.
The 142nd chapter of the Book of the Dead, which gives a list of the names of Osiris, has (l. 17) that of
