ḏlꜣ.t
Egyptian · noun
variants : ḏl.t , : ḏlꜥ.t , : ḏl
Edited by: Andreas Winkler
Last edited: 2023-10-31
Meanings
Literal translation
scorpion
Categories
zodiac sign
animal
Related Lemmata 8 ›

1. Scorpio

1.a Scorpio zodiac sign

ꜣbd-1 ꜣḫ.t tꜣ ḏlꜣ(.t)

‘Thoth: Scorpio’

— O.Strasb.Dem. 521 10

Genre: astronomical list Date: 300 BCE - 300 CE

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

2. scorpion

2.a scorpion animal
Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2023). ḏlꜣ.t (Lemma #67). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/67/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2023). ḏlꜣ.t (Lemma #67). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/67/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2023). ḏlꜣ.t (Lemma #67). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/67/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2023) ḏlꜣ.t (Lemma #67), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/67/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac67,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2023},
	title = {ḏlꜣ.t ({Lemma} #67)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/67/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/67/},
}