Tjemes-ni-chentet

Tjemes-ni-chentet is the name of an ancient Egyptian dean who comprised three dean stars and belonged to the ancient Egyptian constellation ship , which is depicted in many coffins on the diagonal star clocks as well as, for example, in the tomb of Senenmut and approximately at the same level as the ancient Egyptian constellation Sheep lay.

The most noticeable reddish stars are Antares (Alpha Scorpii) and Wei (Epsilon Scorpii) in the constellation Scorpio . The name Antares comes from the Greek and means something like " opposite to Ares " . The god Ares was called Mars by the Romans , and Antares is both similar in color and brightness to Mars , making the two easy to confuse, especially since they are always near the ecliptic . The Egyptian name "The Red of the Ship" refers to the deity Seth , who was also called "Lord of this Dean".

In the dean lists of the Sethos script , Tjemes-ni-chentet represented the twelfth dean on the body of the groove . The heliacal ascent was scheduled for the 26th Schemu IV 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. 89.
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.