ꜥ.wy (n) ṯsy
Egyptian · noun
Edited by: Andreas Winkler
Last edited: 2023-09-19
Meanings
Literal translation
house of lifting
Categories
astrological concept
Related Lemmata 10 ›

1. exaltation

1.a exaltation astrological concept

wpy tꜣ ḳnḥy.t n pꜣ rꜥ ỉꜥḥ pꜣ 5 sw ꜥnḫ nꜣ ꜥ.wy.w nty mr[=w n-ỉm=w] ⌈nꜣy=w⌉ ꜥ.wy.w n ṯsy tꜣ ḳnḥy.t n pꜣ rꜥ pꜣ mꜣe pꜣy=f ꜥ.wy n ṯsy pꜣ ỉsw n s[wsw] 19

‘Dividing the dignities of the Sun, the Moon, and the five living stars; the horses that they prefer among them, their exaltations: the dignity of the Sun: Leo; its exaltation: Aries in 19°’

— P.Carlsberg 81

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

Winkler, A. 2016. Some Astrologers and their Handbooks in Demotic Egyptian. In The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World, ed. J. M. Steele. Leiden: Brill: ### 256

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APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2023). ꜥ.wy (n) ṯsy (Lemma #317). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/317/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2023). ꜥ.wy (n) ṯsy (Lemma #317). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/317/
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Winkler, A. (2023). ꜥ.wy (n) ṯsy (Lemma #317). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/317/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2023) ꜥ.wy (n) ṯsy (Lemma #317), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/317/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac317,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2023},
	title = {ꜥ.wy (n) ṯsy ({Lemma} #317)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/317/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/317/},
}