Chentet-cheret
| Chentet-cheret in hieroglyphics | ||||||||
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Chentet-cheret Ḫnt.t-ẖr.t lower of the ship |
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Chentet-cheret is the name of an ancient Egyptian dean that comprised three dean stars and belonged to the ancient Egyptian constellation Ship , which is depicted in many coffins on the diagonal star clocks and, for example, in the tomb of Senenmut and was approximately at the same height as the ancient Egyptian constellation Sheep .
The most conspicuous celestial object is the binary star system ζ 2 -Scorpii in the constellation Scorpio .
In the dean lists of the Sethos script , Chentet-cheret represented the eleventh dean on the body of the groove . The heliacal ascent was set for the 16th Schemu IV and had the decree under Sesostris III as a dating basis . ( 12th Dynasty ) in his seventh year of reign.
literature
- Christian Leitz : Ancient Egyptian star clocks . Peeters, Leuven 1995, ISBN 90-6831-669-9 , p. 89.
- 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.