Heri-ab wia

Heri-ab wia is the name of an ancient Egyptian dean that comprised four dean stars . The most noticeable star could be identified as the bluish-white double star Nunki in the constellation Sagittarius .

In the dean lists of the Sethos script , Heri-ab wia represented the 14th dean on the body of the groove . The heliacal ascent was scheduled for the 16th Achet I and had the decree under Sesostris III as a dating basis . ( 12th Dynasty ) in his seventh year of reign.

Heri-ab wia belonged to the ancient Egyptian constellation sheep . Due to the extinction , Heri-ab-wia is visible up to a horizon height of 2.1 °. The apparent rising or setting occurs about 12 to 15 minutes later or earlier than the actual rising or setting.

literature

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