Sawi-seret
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Sawi-seret S3wj-sr.t flank of the sheep |
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Sawi-seret is the name of an ancient Egyptian dean that comprised four dean stars and belonged to the ancient Egyptian constellation Sheep , which is depicted in many coffins on the diagonal star clocks and, for example, in the tomb of Senenmut .
The derivation of the translation flank comes from the form s3wt and is related to the part of the body between the tailbone and back, which is why in this context we speak of flanking and protective . The most noticeable star is Sadalsuud (β) in the constellation Aquarius .
In the dean lists of the Sethos script , Sawi-seret represented the 20th dean on the body of the groove . The heliacal ascent was set for the 16th Achet III and had the decree under Sesostris III as a dating basis . ( 12th Dynasty ) in his seventh year of reign.
Due to the extinction , Sawi-seret is visible up to a horizon height of 2.9 °. The apparent rising or setting occurs about 18 to 21 minutes later or earlier than the actual rising or setting.
See also
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. 396.