mỉ.t

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2024-02-25
Primary meaning path
Literal translation way, road, path
Variants
mỉ.t
Edited by
path astronomical term

[ỉw=f ḫpr r wn] sw bꜣn ṯsy | ẖn tꜣ mỉ.t 2.t r wn sw nfr ẖn nꜣ twtw.w nty hby [...

‘[If a] malefic star exalts | in the 2 paths when a benefic star is inside the zodiac signs which are depressed [...’

— P.Carlsberg 81 Frag. 31 ii 3-4

Genre: astrological treatise
Provenance: Tebtunis
Date: 2nd century CE

Unpublished text.

...] tkn syw pꜣy=f ỉry ḥr tꜣ mỉ.t n rhwy šby nꜣ ḫꜥ.w n spt.t ỉr ỉꜥḥ ...

‘...] a star pushed away its other on the way of the evening. The appearances of Sothis were changed. The Moon ...’

— P.Carlsberg XI 5 Frag. 1, x+17

Genre: literary text
Provenance: Tebtunis
Date: 1st - 2nd century CE

Quack, J. F., 2019, Isis, Thot und Arian aud der Suche nach Osiris, in J. F. Quack and K. Ryholt, eds., Demotic Literary Texts from Tebtunis and Beyond, Copenhagen 2019, 77-138. 80-81

path

Movement of constellation.

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2024). mỉ.t (Lemma #552). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/552/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2024). mỉ.t (Lemma #552). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/552/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2024). mỉ.t (Lemma #552). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/552/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2024) mỉ.t (Lemma #552), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/552/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac552,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {mỉ.t ({Lemma} #552)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/552/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/552/},
}