Schetui

Schetui is the name of an ancient Egyptian dean that comprised three dean stars . Together with the Dean Ab , Schetui formed the ancient Egyptian constellation Ab-Schetui .

The Dean Schetui is to be equated with the first part of the constellation Cancer , whose stars ι Cancri , γ Cancri and δ Cancri formed the head of the turtle .

In the dean lists of the Sethos scripture , the shetui on the body of the groove represented the 36th dean. The heliacal ascent was scheduled for the 26th Peret IV and had as a dating basis the decree under Sesostris III. ( 12th Dynasty ) in his seventh year of reign.

During the reign of Ramses II , the acronychic culmination of Shetui was noted for the fourth month of Achet , from which a possible period for 1279 BC. From September 25th to October 24th and for 1214 BC. From September 12th to October 11th.

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.