sr

Egyptian verb

Last edited: 2024-01-11
Primary meaning to spread
Literal translation to spread
Variants
sr
Edited by
to spread verb of position

Refers to the division of the 12 zodiac signs

nꜣ wn nꜣ syw nty sr(.w) | pꜣ ỉbd 12

‘The list of the stars which are spread | on the 12 months’

— O.Strasb.Dem. 521 6-7

Genre: astronomical list
Provenance: Thebes (?)
Date: 300 BCE - 300 CE

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

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2024). sr (Lemma #632). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/632/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2024). sr (Lemma #632). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/632/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2024). sr (Lemma #632). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/632/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2024) sr (Lemma #632), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/632/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac632,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {sr ({Lemma} #632)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/632/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/632/},
}