šmw
Egyptian · noun
Edited by: Andreas Winkler
Last edited: 2023-09-28
Meanings
Literal translation
Harvest season
Categories
calendrical concept

1. Shemu season

1.a Shemu season calendrical concept

tpy šmw pꜣ knḥḏ | ỉbd-2 šmw pꜣ mꜣy ỉbd-3 šmw tꜣ rpy.t | ỉbd-4 šmw tꜣ ꜣḫ.t

‘Month 1 of Shemu: Cancer; | month 2 of Shemu: Leo; Month 3 of Shemu: Virgo; | Month 4 of Shemu: Libra.’

— O.Strasb.Dem. 521 8-10

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. (2023). šmw (Lemma #635). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/635/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2023). šmw (Lemma #635). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/635/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2023). šmw (Lemma #635). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/635/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2023) šmw (Lemma #635), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/635/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac635,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2023},
	title = {šmw ({Lemma} #635)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/635/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/635/},
}