𓍇𓏌𓅱𓁹

nw
Egyptian · verb
Edited by: Andreas Winkler
Last edited: 2023-12-15

Literal translation
to look, behold
Related Lemmata 17

1. to look

1.a to look

ỉw=f ḫpr r wn sw nfr nw r-r=f

‘If a beneficent star looks at it’

— P.Carlsberg 81

Genre: astrological treatise Provenance: Tebtunis Date: 2nd cent. CE

Winkler, A. 2016. Some Astrologers and their Handbooks in Demotic Egyptian. In The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World, ed. J. M. Steele. Leiden: Brill: ###

ỉw=f ḫpr ỉw=f nw r ỉꜥḥ

‘If it looks at the moon’

— P.Carlsberg 81

Genre: astrological treatise Provenance: Tebtunis Date: 2nd cent. CE

Winkler, A. 2016. Some Astrologers and their Handbooks in Demotic Egyptian. In The Circulation of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ancient World, ed. J. M. Steele. Leiden: Brill: ###

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 x+22-x+23

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

Quack, J. F., 2019, Isis, Thot und Arian und 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

2. to behold

2.a to behold

3. to be in aspect with

3.a to be in aspect with
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APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2023). 𓍇𓏌𓅱𓁹 (Lemma #83). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/83/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2023). 𓍇𓏌𓅱𓁹 (Lemma #83). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/83/

MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2023). 𓍇𓏌𓅱𓁹 (Lemma #83). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/83/

Harvard
Winkler, A. (2023) 𓍇𓏌𓅱𓁹 (Lemma #83), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/83/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac83,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2023},
	title = {𓍇𓏌𓅱𓁹 ({Lemma} #83)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/83/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/83/},
}