ꜥ.wy sšr

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2023-09-19
Primary meaning House of Evil Daimon
Literal translation House of Evil Daimon
Variants
sšl Fayyumic
sšr
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House of Evil Daimon astrological place

12th astrological place

pꜣy-ms=w r pꜣ-nṯr-t(w)ꜣ n ꜥ.wy n sšl ỉw=f (r) štšt | ẖr ḥm.t wꜥ.t bw-ỉr=w dỉ.t mtry⟨=f⟩ ỉrm s-ḥm.t

‘The one who was born when Venus was in the House of Evil Daimon, he will fight | with a wife and he will never be allowed to agree with a woman.’

— P.Berlin 8345 iii 7-8

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.

pꜣ šy pꜣ mꜣy | pꜣ sšr tꜣ rpy.t

‘The Daimon: Leo | The Evil Daimon: Virgo’

— O.Neugeb. 3 22-23

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 sšr (Lemma #264). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/264/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2023). ꜥ.wy sšr (Lemma #264). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/264/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2023). ꜥ.wy sšr (Lemma #264). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/264/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2023) ꜥ.wy sšr (Lemma #264), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/264/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac264,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2023},
	title = {ꜥ.wy sšr ({Lemma} #264)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/264/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/264/},
}