sw nfr

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2024-01-11
Primary meaning benefic planet
Literal translation good star
Variants
ⲥⲟⲩⲛⲟⲩϥⲉ Old Coptic
sw nfr
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benefic planet astrological concept

Describes the inherent quality of a planet

⌈wpy⌉ nꜣ sw.w bꜣn.w | ỉrm nꜣ sw.w nfr.w ḥr-pꜣ-kꜣ ḥr-tšy pꜣ-rꜥ nꜣ sw.w bꜣn.w nꜣ.w ḥr-pꜣ-šty nṯr-tꜣy sbkꜣ nꜣ sw.w nfr.w nꜣ.w

‘Listing the maleficent stars | and the beneficent stars: Saturn, Mars, and the Sun are the maleficent stars; Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury are the beneficent stars.’

— P.Carlsberg 81

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), 245-286 258

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2024). sw nfr (Lemma #320). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/320/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2024). sw nfr (Lemma #320). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/320/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2024). sw nfr (Lemma #320). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/320/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2024) sw nfr (Lemma #320), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/320/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac320,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {sw nfr ({Lemma} #320)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/320/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/320/},
}