sr

Egyptian verb

Last edited: 2024-01-11
Primary meaning to spread
Literal translation to spread
Variants
sr
Edited by
to spread 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: June 5, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac632,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-06-05]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {sr ({Lemma} #632)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/632/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/632/},
}