Temat-heret-cheret
| Temat-heret-cheret in hieroglyphics | |||||||||
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Temat-heret Temat-cheret Tm3.t-ḥr.t tm3.t-ẖr.t Reading: Temat-heret-cheret Tm3.t-ḥr.t-ẖr.t upper and lower of the mat |
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Temat-heret-cheret is also the name of the ancient Egyptian constellation Matte and an ancient Egyptian dean that comprised seven dean stars and the two individual deans Temat-heret and Temat-cheret .
background
The most conspicuous celestial objects are the four main stars Acrux , Becrux , Gacrux and Decrux from the constellation Southern Cross . These four main stars form an easily recognizable diamond .
In the dean lists of the Sethos script , Temat-heret-cheret represented the fifth dean on the body of the groove . The heliacal ascent was scheduled for the 16th Schemu II 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 , 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
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↑ The Use of the Hieroglyph
instead of
contradicts the usual spelling. In the original text is
can 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.