Definition of "Shemu"

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

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.

2008, Sally Watson, The Missing Queen

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).

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

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

2014, Wendy Wallace, The Sacred River: A Novel