ḫꜥ

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2025-07-21
Primary meaning appearance
Literal translation appearance
Variants
ḫꜥ
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appearance astronomical event

nth rḫ n šꜥ.w n pꜣ 5 sw ꜥnḫ.w ḥnꜥ gm pꜣ wš n ỉr ꜥb.t n p(ꜣ) rꜥ ỉꜥḥ

‘... who knows the appearance of the 5 living stars and find the time of obscuration of the sun and the moon’

— Graf.Phil. 410 7-8

Genre: inscription
Provenance: Philae
Date: 3rd cent. CE

Griffith, F.Ll., Catalogue of the Demotic Graffiti of the Dodecaschoenus (Oxford, 1935 - 1937) 26-31

to appear verb
Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2025). ḫꜥ (Lemma #170). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/170/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2025). ḫꜥ (Lemma #170). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/170/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2025). ḫꜥ (Lemma #170). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/170/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2025) ḫꜥ (Lemma #170), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/170/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac170,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ḫꜥ ({Lemma} #170)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/170/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/170/},
}