Seret (dean)
Seret in hieroglyphics | |||||||
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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.