twr

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2023-06-30
Primary meaning point of triplicity
Literal translation ?
Variants
ṯꜣw-lꜣ Fayyumic
Edited by
point of triplicity astrological concept

Point of triplicity; given as eastern and western twr

rꜥ-ḫꜥ ỉḫy.t | rꜥ-ḥtp ỉsw | šy p.t pꜣ gnḥḏ | šy dwꜣ.t pꜣ ḥr-ꜥnḫ ḥr-pꜣ-kꜣ | pꜣ swšp n mtr [nꜣ] ḥtr.w | pꜣ swšp ỉꜣbṱ nꜣ (?) tbt.w| pꜣ swšp ỉmnṱ tꜣ rpy.t | twr n ỉmnṱ pꜣ ỉsw | twr n ỉꜣbṱ pꜣ mw pꜣ mꜣy

‘Ascendant: Libra | Descendant: Aries | Lake of the Sky: Cancer | Lake of the Netherworld: Capricorn |the middle swšp: Gemini | the eastern swšp: pisces | the western swšp: Virgo | western twr: Aries | eastern twr: Aquarius and Leo.’

— O.Neugeb. 3 4-12

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). twr (Lemma #281). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/281/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2023). twr (Lemma #281). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/281/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2023). twr (Lemma #281). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/281/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2023) twr (Lemma #281), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/281/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac281,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2023},
	title = {twr ({Lemma} #281)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/281/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/281/},
}