pꜣ-rꜥ

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2023-12-15
Primary meaning Sun
Literal translation Sun
Variants
pꜣ-rꜥ
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Sun planet

ḥsb.t 5.t n Ꜣntwnyns | ỉbd-3 (n) šmw sw ꜥrḳy n pꜣ Wynyn pꜣ ṯꜣy-wnw.t 3.t n grḥ | pꜣ-rꜥ sbk ḥr-tšy mꜣe

‘Regnal year 5 of Antoninus (Pius) | month 3 of Shemu, day 30 according to the Greeks, 3rd hour of the night | The sun, Mercury, and Mars in Leo.’

— Griffith MSS 3.59 1-3

Genre: horoscope
Provenance: Thebes (?)
Date: 2nd century CE

A. Winkler, A Starry Summer Night in AD 142: A Theban Horoscope (Griffith MSS 3.59) in Context, in K. Donker van Heel, F.A.J. Hoogelijk, and C.J. Martin (eds), Hieratic, Demotic and Greek Studies and Text Editions: Of Making Many Books There Is No End. Festschrift for Sven P. Vleeming (Leiden:Brill), 298-308. 301


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2023). pꜣ-rꜥ (Lemma #305). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/305/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2023). pꜣ-rꜥ (Lemma #305). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/305/

MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2023). pꜣ-rꜥ (Lemma #305). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/305/

Harvard
Winkler, A. (2023) pꜣ-rꜥ (Lemma #305), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/305/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac305,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2023},
	title = {pꜣ-rꜥ ({Lemma} #305)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/305/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/305/},
}