Seret (dean)

Seret in hieroglyphics
Seret Sr.t (head) of the sheep

Seret is the name of an ancient Egyptian dean that comprised nine 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 most striking star is Deneb Algedi in the constellation Capricorn .

In the dean lists of the Sethos script , Seret on the body of the groove represented the 19th dean. The heliacal ascent was set for the 6th Achet III 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. 92.
• 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.