ỉmy-wnw.t

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2023-06-30
Primary meaning astronomer
Literal translation who is in the hour
Variants
ỉmy-wnw.t
wnm-wnw.t
Edited by
astronomer title

st wbꜣ=t m-ḳd nꜣ ỉmy-wnw.wt [r] spd.t ỉw=w ⌈...⌉ n krḥ

‘They are opposite you just like the astronomers are (behind) Sothis, when they ⌈...⌉ in the night.’

— P.Leid. 384 x 16

Genre: literary text
Provenance: Thebes
Date: 2nd cent. CE

W. Spiegelberg, 2017, Der Ägyptische Mythus vom Sonnenauge, der Papyrus der Tierfabeln, Kufi. Nach dem Leidener demotischen Papyrus I 384 (Strasbourg)

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2023). ỉmy-wnw.t (Lemma #345). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/345/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2023). ỉmy-wnw.t (Lemma #345). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/345/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2023). ỉmy-wnw.t (Lemma #345). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/345/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2023) ỉmy-wnw.t (Lemma #345), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/345/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac345,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2023},
	title = {ỉmy-wnw.t ({Lemma} #345)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/345/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/345/},
}