msḫ.ṱ
Egyptian · noun
Edited by: Andreas Winkler
Last edited: 2024-01-11
Meanings
Literal translation
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Categories
constellation
Related Lemmata 9 ›

1. Ursa Major

1.a Ursa Major constellation

ỉ swḥ n tꜣ p.t rsy.t ỉ msḫṱ n tꜣ p.t | mḥṱ.t

‘Oh, Orion of the southern sky, oh Ursa Major of the |northern | sky ...’

— P.Rhind I x 8-9d

Genre: religious text Provenance: Thebes Date: 1st cent. BCE

G. Moller, 1913, Die beiden Totenpapyrus Rhind des Museum su Edinburg (Leipzig)

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APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2024). msḫ.ṱ (Lemma #363). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/363/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2024). msḫ.ṱ (Lemma #363). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/363/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2024). msḫ.ṱ (Lemma #363). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/363/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2024) msḫ.ṱ (Lemma #363), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/363/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac363,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {msḫ.ṱ ({Lemma} #363)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/363/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/363/},
}