nysn

Egyptian noun
loaned from Aramaic

Last edited: 2024-11-03
Primary meaning Nisan (month I)
Variants
nysn* Restored form
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Nisan (month I) lunar month, time interval, month

Originally Babylonian month name in Egyptian transcription through an Aramaic source

[nysn pꜣ wrš] | ỉbd-4 ꜣḫ.t ꜣyr tpy [pr.t pꜣy šywn pꜣ wrš ỉbd-2 pr.t pꜣy tmws pꜣ] | wrš ỉbd-3 pr.t pꜣy

‘[Nisan is lunar month] | 4 of Akhet; Iyar is the first month of [Peret; Siwan is lunar month 2 of Peret. Tammuz is] | lunar month 3 of Peret.’

— P.Omina ii 18-20

Genre: celestial divination
Provenance: Soknopaiou Nesos
Date: 2nd century CE; text from 7th cent. BCE

R. A. Parker, 1959, A Vienna Demotic Papyrus on Eclipse- and Lunar Omina , Providence . 9

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APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2024). nysn (Lemma #593). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/593/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2024). nysn (Lemma #593). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/593/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2024). nysn (Lemma #593). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/593/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2024) nysn (Lemma #593), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/593/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac593,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {nysn ({Lemma} #593)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/593/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/593/},
}