Shemu

Proper noun

Shemu

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