šy n tꜣ dwꜣ.t
Egyptian · noun
variants : šy dwꜣ.t , : dwꜣ.t
Edited by: Andreas Winkler
Last edited: 2023-09-19
Meanings
Literal translation
Lake of the Netherworld
Related Lemmata 5 ›

1. Lower midheaven

1.a Lower midheaven

4th astrological place

pꜣ šy p.t pꜣ-nty-ꜣtḥ pꜣ šy dwꜣ.t ḥtr.w

‘Lake of the sky: Sagittarius | Lake of the Netherworld: Gemini’

— O.Neugeb. 2 6-7

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

O. Neugebauer, “Demotic Horoscopes”, JAOS 63 (1943), 115–127. 116-117

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APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2023). šy n tꜣ dwꜣ.t (Lemma #266). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/266/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2023). šy n tꜣ dwꜣ.t (Lemma #266). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/266/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2023). šy n tꜣ dwꜣ.t (Lemma #266). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/266/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2023) šy n tꜣ dwꜣ.t (Lemma #266), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/266/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac266,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2023},
	title = {šy n tꜣ dwꜣ.t ({Lemma} #266)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/266/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/266/},
}