Shemu

Shemu

English

Alternative forms

• Shomu

Etymology

Borrowed from Egyptian šmw, .

Proper noun

Shemu

1. (Egyptology) One of the three seasons of Ancient Egypt coming after Akhet and Peret; Harvest.
   • 2003, Koen Donker Van Heel and B. J. J Häring, Writing in a Workmen's Village: Scribal Practice in Ramesside Deir El-Medina:

     The entry for IV shemu 25 on the reverse was written on the sloping edge of the ostracon to the right of the main text.

   • 2003, The synchronisation of civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the second millennium B.C. II: proceedings of the SCIEM 2000—EuroConference Haindorf, 2nd of May-7th of May 2001:

     Beckerath, one of those who accepted Helck’s argument, paraphrased it as follows: The accession of Amenhotep I and thus the beginning of his regnal years apparently lay on III Shemu 9 or on one of two later days.

   • 2008, Sally Watson, The Missing Queen:

     Across the Nile—still wide even in Shemu season when the water was low—Ra hung hot and gold over the western fields and their harvesters.

   • 2013, Koenraad Donker van Heel, Djekhy & Son: Doing Business in Ancient Egypt:

     According to the statement above, Petosiris was to take the oath that relinquished his alleged rights to the tomb on 19 October 559 BCE, about three weeks later (day 13 of the second month of shemu in the same year 12).

   • 2014, Wendy Wallace, The Sacred River: A Novel:

     He was moving from Shemu to Akhet. But what had he harvested, in this last hard year?

Translations

Translations

French: Chémou m

Anagrams

• mehus