syw n wsỉr
Egyptian · noun
Edited by: Andreas Winkler
Last edited: 2024-01-11

Meanings
Literal translation
Star of Osiris
Categories
constellation
Related Lemmata 3

1. Orion

1.a Orion constellation

ḥn=f n=w ḏd gšp r tꜣ p.t ỉ.nw r pꜣ ỉtm m-ỉr dỉ.t ḥp md.t ỉw=s ḫpr [... | ...] nꜣ rmṯ.w ꜥš=w nꜣy=w sẖꜣ.w gšp=w r tꜣ p.t nw=w r pꜣ ỉtm ỉ.ỉr=w gm pꜣ syw n wsỉr r ḫꜣꜥ=f tꜣy=f mỉ.t ...

‘He ordered them: "Observe the sky and look at the disc. Do not allow that matters are hidden ... [... | ...] the people. They read their scriptures, they observed the sky, and they looked at the disc. They found that the Star of Osiris, in that it had left its path ..."’

— P.Carlsberg XI 5 Frag. 1, x+22-x+23

Genre: literary text Provenance: Tebtunis Date: 1st - 2nd cent. 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


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2024). syw n wsỉr (Lemma #658). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/658/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2024). syw n wsỉr (Lemma #658). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/658/

MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2024). syw n wsỉr (Lemma #658). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/658/

Harvard
Winkler, A. (2024) syw n wsỉr (Lemma #658), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/658/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac658,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {syw n wsỉr ({Lemma} #658)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/658/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/658/},
}