syw n wsỉr

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2024-01-11
Primary meaning Orion
Literal translation Star of Osiris
Variants
syw n wsỉr
Edited by
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: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac658,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	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/},
}