wnw.t

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2023-09-19
Primary meaning hour
Literal translation hour
Variants
wnw.t
ⲟⲩⲛⲟⲩ Old Coptic
Edited by
seasonal hour time interval

ḫr-ỉr=k wꜣḥ wꜥ pyngs n ꜥš wnw.t ḥr nꜣ tbꜣ.w mtw=k wꜣḥ nꜣ syw.w ḥr-ꜣ.t=f

‘You shall put down a table of reading the hour on the bricks and you shall place the "stars" on top of it.’

— GEMF 16 iv 21

Genre: magical text
Provenance: Thebes
Date: 2nd cent. CE

Faraone, Ch. and Torallas Tovar, S. 2022, Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies: Text and Translation, vol. I (Berkeley CA) 152

time interval time interval

When several hours are included they correspond to a divison of the day.

ṯꜣy] pꜣ ḏd-wnw.t 1.t šꜥ pꜣ ḏd-wnw.t 4.t ny-sw | Km.t

‘From the 1st hour of until the 4th hour, it belongs to | Egypt.’

— P.Omina ii 25-26

Genre: celestial divination
Provenance: Soknopaiou Nesos
Date: 2nd century CE; text from 7th cent. BCE

R. A. Parker, 1959, A Vienna Demotic Papyrus on Eclipse- and Lunar Omina , Providence . 10-11

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2023). wnw.t (Lemma #233). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/233/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2023). wnw.t (Lemma #233). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/233/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2023). wnw.t (Lemma #233). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/233/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2023) wnw.t (Lemma #233), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/233/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac233,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2023},
	title = {wnw.t ({Lemma} #233)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/233/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/233/},
}