rꜥ-ḫꜥ

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2024-01-11
Primary meaning ascendant
Literal translation rising
Variants
ḫꜥ
rꜥ-ḫꜥ
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rising

ascendant

[pꜣy-ms=w] r pꜣ-nṯr-twꜣ mtw⸗f rꜥ-ḫꜥ ỉw=f r ỉr rmṯ ḥsy

‘[The one who was born] when Venus was in the ascendant, he will become a praised man’

— P.Berlin 8345 x+1, 2

Genre: astrological treatise
Provenance: Soknopaiou Nesos
Date: 1st cent. CE to 2nd cent. CE

Quack, J. F., 2008, Texte aus Ägypten: Demotische, magische und divinatorische Texte. In B. Janowski and B. Wilhelm (eds), Omina, Orakel, Rituale und Beschwörungen. Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments, Neue Folge 4. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus.


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2024). rꜥ-ḫꜥ (Lemma #126). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/126/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2024). rꜥ-ḫꜥ (Lemma #126). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/126/

MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2024). rꜥ-ḫꜥ (Lemma #126). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/126/

Harvard
Winkler, A. (2024) rꜥ-ḫꜥ (Lemma #126), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/126/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac126,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {rꜥ-ḫꜥ ({Lemma} #126)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/126/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/126/},
}