Probable Identification of the Ancient Egyptian Circumpolar Constellations
Abstract
La seule identification bien etablie est celle de la Grande Ourse : la Patte de devant (Mshtyw). A partir de celle-ci, l'A. propose quelques autres identifications : le Crocodile, l'Hippopotame, le Piquet d'amarrage et le dieu Anu
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
The star 'akh of Meskhet(yu)' corresponds to Alkaid (ζ UMa).
“This corresponds to Alkaid ( Z UMa) (Locher 1985; Leitz 1991).”
From Egyptian Constellations (2015) · cites this paper as Locher 1985
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Lull, J., & Belmonte, J. A. (2015) · Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy · doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_148 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
- Authors
- Locher, K.
- Affiliations
- Kantonsschule, Wetzikon, Switzerland
- Corresponding author
- Locher, Kurt
- Venue
- Journal for the History of Astronomy
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1985-02
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- S152-S153
- ISSN
- 0021-8286 (ISSN-L)
- 1753-8556
- OpenAlex
- W1614159361
- Cited by
- 10
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal for the History of Astronomy (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Historical Astronomy and Related Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Historical and Architectural Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Keywords
- Great Bear, anus, Egyptian astronomy
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
