𓍇𓏌𓅱𓁹
nw

Egyptian verb

Last edited: 2023-12-15
Primary meaning to be in aspect with
Literal translation to look, behold
Variants
𓍇𓏌𓅱𓁹 nw
Edited by
to look verb

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

to behold verb
to be in aspect with verb
See also

〈θεωρέω〉 theōreō ‘to observe’

〈βλέπω〉 blepō ‘to be in aspect with’

〈excipio〉 ‘to be approached by, have another planet come into aspect’

〈coniungo〉 ‘to be in aspect with’

〈respicio〉 ‘to be in aspect’

〈radiatione pulsor〉 ‘to be in aspect’

〈testimonium perhibeo〉 ‘to be in aspect’

〈copulatio〉 ‘aspect’

〈intueor〉 ‘to be in aspect with’

〈aspicio〉 ‘to be in aspect’

〈radiatione percutio〉 ‘to be in aspect’

〈radiatione convenio〉 ‘to be in aspect’

〈testimonium commodo〉 ‘to be in favorable aspect’

〈radiis orno〉 ‘to be in favorable aspect’

〈radio〉 ‘to be in aspect’

〈attestor〉 ‘to be in aspect’

External links
Cite this entry
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: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac83,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2023},
	title = {𓍇𓏌𓅱𓁹 ({Lemma} #83)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/83/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/83/},
}