ꜥ.wy wry.t

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2023-09-18
Primary meaning House of misfortune
Literal translation House of the great one
Variants
wly.t Fayyumic
Edited by
House of misfortune astrological house

6th astrological place

pꜣy-ms=w r pꜣ nṯr-t(w)ꜣ n ꜥ.wy n wly.t | syt bꜣn ꜥšꜣy r ḫpr n=f

‘He who was born when Venus was in the House of misfortune, much ill fame will happen to him’

— P.Berlin 8345 ii 1-2

Genre: astrological treatise
Provenance: Soknopaiou Nesos
Date: 1st cent. CE to 2nd cent. CE

Quack, J. F., 2008, Texte aus Ägypten: Demotische, magische und divinatorische Texte. In B. Janowski and B. Wilhelm (eds), Omina, Orakel, Rituale und Beschwörungen. Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments, Neue Folge 4. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus.

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APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2023). ꜥ.wy wry.t (Lemma #261). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/261/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2023). ꜥ.wy wry.t (Lemma #261). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/261/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2023). ꜥ.wy wry.t (Lemma #261). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/261/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2023) ꜥ.wy wry.t (Lemma #261), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/261/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac261,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2023},
	title = {ꜥ.wy wry.t ({Lemma} #261)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/261/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/261/},
}