ꜥ.wy mwt

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2023-09-19
Primary meaning House of death
Literal translation House of death
Variants
ꜥ.wy (n) sḥn-mwt In Thebes
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House of death astrological house

7th astrological place

pꜣy-ms=w r pꜣ-nṯr-dwꜣ n ꜥ.wy n mwt ỉw=f ꜥšꜣ ...

‘He who was born when Venus was in the house of death, he will be plentiful of ...’

— P.Berlin 8345 ii 10

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.

ꜥ.wy (n) sḥn-mwt pꜣ kꜣ ḥr-tšy

‘House of provisions of death: Taurus and Mars’

— O.Neugeb. 3 19

Genre: horoscope
Provenance: Thebes
Date: 1st cent. CE

Neugebauer, O., 1943. Demotic Horoscopes, Journal of the American Oriental Society 63: 116-117 116-117


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2023). ꜥ.wy mwt (Lemma #262). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/262/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2023). ꜥ.wy mwt (Lemma #262). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/262/

MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2023). ꜥ.wy mwt (Lemma #262). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/262/

Harvard
Winkler, A. (2023) ꜥ.wy mwt (Lemma #262), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/262/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac262,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2023},
	title = {ꜥ.wy mwt ({Lemma} #262)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/262/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/262/},
}