Temat-cheret

Temat-cheret in hieroglyphics
Temat-cheret Tm3.t-ẖr.t lower of the mat

Temat-cheret is the name of an ancient Egyptian dean that comprised four dean stars and belonged to the ancient Egyptian constellation Matte .

background

southern Cross

The most striking celestial object is the lower main star Acrux from the constellation Southern Cross .

In the dean lists of the Sethos script , this dean was combined with Temat-heret to form the overall dean Temat-heret-cheret at the body of the groove as the fifth dean.

literature

• Christian Leitz : Ancient Egyptian star clocks . Peeters, Leuven 1995, ISBN 90-6831-669-9 , pp. 85-86.
• 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.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Use of the Hieroglyph instead of contradicts the usual spelling. In the original text iscan also be seen mirrored and rotated by 90 °. The cause is the partially cryptographic writing of the groove book, cf. Alexandra von Lieven: Plan of the course of the stars - The so-called Nutbuch , The Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Ancient Eastern Studies (among others), Copenhagen 2007, p. 385.