wrš

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2023-10-31
Primary meaning lunar month
Literal translation time, watch, lunar month
Variants
wrš
Edited by
lunar month calendrical concept

ḫr-ỉr=k=f n-ṯꜣy-n pꜣ hrw | n mḥ-4 n pꜣ wrš šꜥ pꜣ hrw n mḥ-15 nty-ỉw 15.nt pꜣy ỉw ỉꜥḥ mḥ wḏꜣ.t

‘You always do it from the | 4th day of the lunar month until day 15, which is the Full Moon day, when the Moon fills the Udjat-eye.’

— GEMF 16 294-295

Genre: magical text
Provenance: Thebes
Date: 2nd cent. CE; text from 7th cent. BCE

Faraone, Ch. and Torallas Tovar, S. 2022, Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies: Text and Translation, vol. I (Berkeley CA) 174

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2023). wrš (Lemma #447). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/447/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2023). wrš (Lemma #447). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/447/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2023). wrš (Lemma #447). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/447/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2023) wrš (Lemma #447), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/447/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac447,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2023},
	title = {wrš ({Lemma} #447)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/447/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/447/},
}