Kenemu

Kenemu in hieroglyphics
Kenemu Knmw The dark Ken stars

Kenemu is the name of an ancient Egyptian dean that comprised three dean stars , whereby the dean's name is derived from the faint stars and this region of the sky appears as a dark spot .

The most conspicuous stars are Unukalhai in the constellation Snake and Hydor in the constellation Aquarius .

In the dean lists of the Sethos script , Kenemu represented the 16th dean on the body of the groove . The heliacal ascent was scheduled for the 6th Achet II 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. 91.
• 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.