sḫny

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2024-01-11
Primary meaning influence
Literal translation event, incident, coincidence, encounter; constellation
Variants
sḫny
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astrological influence noun

nꜣ sḫny(.w) n pꜣ-nṯr-tꜣy | pꜣy-ms=w r pꜣ-nṯr-tꜣy n rꜥ-ḫꜥ ...

‘The influences of Venus | The one who was born when Venus was in the ascendant ...’

— P.Berlin 8345 i 1-2

Genre: astrological treatise
Provenance: Soknopaiou Nesos
Date: 1st cent. CE to 2nd cent. CE

Quack, J. F., 2008, Texte aus Ägypten: Demotische, magische und divinatorische Texte. In B. Janowski and B. Wilhelm (eds), Omina, Orakel, Rituale und Beschwörungen. Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments, Neue Folge 4. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus.

constellation star

ḫpr=f mtw rmṯ nb rḫ=s ḏd pꜣ h̭m r.wn-nꜣ.w | n wš ẖn pꜣ smn n nꜣ ṱꜣ.w ỉrm nꜣ rnp.wt ỉrm nꜣ md.wt nty (n) hp n rḫ=w ḥr nꜣ mšꜥ.w n tꜣ p.t ỉrm nꜣ sḫny.w (r) dỉ.t mtr=w

‘It happened so that everyone may know that the little that was lacking in establishing the times, the year, and the matters that are to be known about the movements of the heavens and the constellations—to have it corrected’

— Canopus Decree, Tanis 43-44D

Genre: inscription
Provenance: Tanis
Date: 3rd cent. BCE

S. Pfeiffer, 2008, Das Dekret von Kanopos (238 v. Chr.): Kommentar und historische Auswertung eines dreisprachigen Synodaldekretes der ägyptischen Priester zu Ehren Ptolemaios' III. und seiner Familie.

DIŠ mul.MAŠ.TAB.BA ša2 ina IGI-it mu[l.SIPA.ZI.AN.NA] GUB.MEŠ-zu d.LU2.LAL3 u d.La-[ta-ra-ak]

‘¶ The twin stars which stand opposite the [True Shepherd of Anu]: Lulal and La[tarak].’

— BM 86378 ii 3-4

Genre: schematic astronomy: mulapin
Provenance: ?
Date: ca. 626-539 BCE

Hunger, H. and Steele, J., 2019. The Babylonian Astronomical Compendium MUL.APIN. London and New York: Routledge. 39

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APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2024). sḫny (Lemma #370). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/370/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2024). sḫny (Lemma #370). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/370/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2024). sḫny (Lemma #370). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/370/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2024) sḫny (Lemma #370), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/370/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac370,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {sḫny ({Lemma} #370)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/370/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/370/},
}