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Ab (also Ab-anch-schetu ) is the name of an ancient Egyptian dean who contained at least one dean star and belonged to the constellation Cancer , the brightest star of which is Altarf .

The nickname "Ankh-shetu" referred to the turtle , a sacred and at the same time dangerous creature in Egyptian mythology . In connection with the dean Ab, "Ab-anch-shetu" symbolized as "purification of the life of the turtle" the death and rebirth of the Nile in connection with the Nile flood .

background

Together with the Dean Schetui , Ab formed the ancient Egyptian constellation Ab-Schetui . In the dean lists of the Sethos scripture there is no mention of dean Ab, but is named under the body of the groove as the first dean who, with Kenmut, had his heliacal ascent on Schemu I on the 6th . The decree under Sesostris III was used as the basis for dating . ( 12th Dynasty ) in his seventh year of reign.

The dean Ab was always seen in connection with the constellation Ab-Schetui and therefore does not appear by name in the dean lists. In the Papyrus Carlsberg 1 its special position is commented:

“The rising of Kenmut together with Ab-Shetui is the life of Horus ; that is, the place where Kenmut rises on the " high day " is the place where Ab rises. The place where the shetui rises on "High Day" is the place where Re rises. That is the rising of the Re; that means: the place of the ascent that Kenmut makes together with Ab-Schetui. "

- Line 15 from the Papyrus Carlsberg 1

literature

Christian Leitz : Ancient Egyptian star clocks. Peeters, Leuven 1995, ISBN 90-6831-669-9 , p. 95.

Siegfried Schott: Ancient Egyptian festival dates. Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz / Wiesbaden 1950, pp. 12–13.

Alexandra von Lieven : Floor plan of the course of the stars - the so-called groove book. The Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Ancient Eastern Studies (inter alia), Copenhagen 2007, ISBN 978-87-635-0406-5 , pp. 62–67 and p. 385 as well as supplementary volume : Das Groovebild.

Individual evidence

↑ Edouard Naville: The Egyptian death book of the XVIII. to XX. Dynasty from various documents. Akad. Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1971 (reprint of the Berlin 1886 edition), Spruch 161.
↑ Alexandra von Lieven: Floor plan of the course of the stars - The so-called groove book. The Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Ancient Eastern Studies (inter alia), Copenhagen 2007, p. 52.

[1] Edouard Naville: The Egyptian death book of the XVIII. to XX. Dynasty from various documents. Akad. Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1971 (reprint of the Berlin 1886 edition), Spruch 161.

[2] Alexandra von Lieven: Floor plan of the course of the stars - The so-called groove book. The Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Ancient Eastern Studies (inter alia), Copenhagen 2007, p. 52.