sw wnwn

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2024-01-11
Primary meaning decan
Literal translation running star
Variants
sw wnwn
Edited by
decan star, decan

epithet of the decans

nꜣ sḫny.w n pꜣ rꜥ ỉw=f ꜥḥꜥ ỉrm wꜥ ẖn pꜣ 36 sw wnwn

‘The influences of the sun when it stands together with one of the 36 running stars’

— PSI inv. D 39

Genre: astrological treatise
Provenance: Tebtunis
Date: 2nd cent. CE

A. Winkler, 2016, Some Astrologers and Their Handbooks in Demotic Egyptian, in J.M. Steele (ed.), The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World (Leiden: Brill), 245-286 250 n. 27

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2024). sw wnwn (Lemma #310). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/310/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2024). sw wnwn (Lemma #310). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/310/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2024). sw wnwn (Lemma #310). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/310/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2024) sw wnwn (Lemma #310), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/310/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac310,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {sw wnwn ({Lemma} #310)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/310/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/310/},
}