pꜣ-rꜥ
Egyptian · noun
Edited by: Andreas Winkler
Last edited: 2023-12-15
Meanings
Literal translation
Sun
Categories
planet
Related Lemmata 9 ›

1. Sun

1.a 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

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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: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac305,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2023},
	title = {pꜣ-rꜥ ({Lemma} #305)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/305/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/305/},
}