𓃝
ỉsw

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2023-06-22
Primary meaning Aries
Literal translation sheep
Variants
𓊃𓂋𓄛 srw
𓃝 ỉsw
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Aries zodiac sign

ỉbd 2 pr.t pꜣ ỉsw

‘Month 2 of Peret (Mecheir): Aries’

— O.Strasb.Dem. 521 7

Genre: astronomical list
Provenance: Egypt
Date: Roman

Neugebauer, O., 1943. Demotic Horoscopes, Journal of the American Oriental Society 63, 121–122. 121

Comment about this quote

pꜣ rꜥ-ḫꜥ tꜣ ỉḫy(.t) | rꜥ-ḥtp pꜣ ỉsw

‘Ascendant: Libra; Descendant: Aries’

— O. Neugebauer 3 4–5

Genre: horoscope
Provenance: Thebes
Date: after AD 18

O. Neugebauer, “Demotic Horoscopes”, JAOS 63 (1943), 117–119 (115–127).


Ram animal

Sheep animal

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2023). 𓃝 (Lemma #51). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/51/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2023). 𓃝 (Lemma #51). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/51/

MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2023). 𓃝 (Lemma #51). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/51/

Harvard
Winkler, A. (2023) 𓃝 (Lemma #51), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/51/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac51,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2023},
	title = {𓃝 ({Lemma} #51)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/51/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/51/},
}