wpe

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2025-05-11
Primary meaning astronomical table
Literal translation list
Variants
wpe
wp.t
Edited by
astronomical table artefact of astral science, astronomical genre

The meaning is inferred.

ỉn tꜣy πυναγίς | ꜥꜣ(.t) ỉmy ỉrm tꜣy wpe | ꜥꜣ(.t) {ỉrm} ḥsb.t 3.t n Πετοσῖρις

‘Bring the great pinax | quickly and the great list | of year 3 of Petosiris’

— OMM 423 1-4

Genre: school text
Provenance: Narmouthis
Date: 2nd cent. CE

A. Menchetti, Un aperçu des textes astrologiques de Medinet Madi, in G. Widmer and D. Devauchelle, eds., Actes du IXe Congrès International des Études Démotiques: Paris, 31 août - 3 septembre 2005; Paris, 2009, 223-241. 231-232

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2025). wpe (Lemma #815). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/815/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2025). wpe (Lemma #815). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/815/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2025). wpe (Lemma #815). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/815/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2025) wpe (Lemma #815), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/815/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac815,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2025},
	title = {wpe ({Lemma} #815)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/815/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/815/},
}