The town of Khem is known from Old Kingdom texts and is also
mentioned in Middle Kingdom Coffin Texts as a centre of
worship of the god Horus Khenty-Irty, or Horus Khenty-Khem,
one of many local aspects of Horus.
The god is mentioned on a panel from the South Tomb of the
Step Pyramid at Saqqara as ‘Horus of Khem’ in an inscription
which uses the archetypal Lower Egyptian Shrine as the
determinative for the cult place of Horus at Letopolis.