Weschati-Bekati

Weschati-Bekati is the name of an ancient Egyptian dean that comprised three dean stars . This dean was divided into the two subordinate individual deans Weschati and Bekati.

The most noticeable star is the bluish-white Hadar in the constellation Centaur . In the dean lists of the Sethos script , Weschati and Bekati on the body of the groove represented the sixth dean.

The heliacal ascent was set for the 26th 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 , p. 87.
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.