σελασφόρος
selasphoros

Greek adjective

Last edited: 2024-11-04
Primary meaning light-bearing
Literal translation light-bearing
Variants
σελασφόρος selasphoros
σελασφ selasph abbreviation
Edited by
light-bearing an epithet of the moon(god), term of visual perception

[...] ἡ δὲ θεὰ καὶ σελασφ(όρος) . . ἦν] ἐν ζῳδίῳ θηλυκῷ δισώμῳ

‘The goddess and light-bearing (moon?) [was] in a feminine bicorporal sign’

— P. Oxy. LXI 4245 7-8

Genre: horoscope
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus
Date: 218 CE

Jones, A. (ed.), 1999. Astronomical papyri from Oxyrhynchus (P. Oxy. 4133-4300a), Volumes I and II. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. I: 258-259 + II: 382-383

See also P. Lond. I 130 (NH 81)
Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). σελασφόρος (Lemma #2617). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2617/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). σελασφόρος (Lemma #2617). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2617/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). σελασφόρος (Lemma #2617). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2617/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) σελασφόρος (Lemma #2617), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2617/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2617,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {σελασφόρος ({Lemma} #2617)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2617/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2617/},
}