Septi-chenwi
| Septi-chenwi in hieroglyphics | ||||||||
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Septi-chenwi Sp.tj-ḥn.wj The two fish |
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Septi-chenwi is the name of an ancient Egyptian dean that comprised four dean stars .
The most noticeable stars of this dean are Delta Sagittarii (Kaus Medius) in the constellation Sagittarius and Delta and Epsilon Ophiuchi (Yed Prior and Yed Posterior) in the constellation Snake Bearer .
In the dean lists of the Sethos scripture , Septi-chenwi represented the 13th dean on the body of the groove . The heliacal ascent was scheduled for the 6th Achet I and had as a dating basis the decree under Sesostris III. ( 12th Dynasty ) in his seventh year of reign.
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.