rnp.t ꜥꜣ.t

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2025-08-25
Primary meaning cycle
Literal translation great year
Variants
rnp.t ꜥꜣ.t
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cycle astronomical term

Sbk | pꜣy=f ḫꜥ ỉmnṱ 1513 | tꜣy=f rnp.t ꜥꜣ.t 480

‘Mercury | its evening rising | 1514 | its great year 480’

— ANAShm.Mus.D.O. 483 1-3

Genre: mathematical astronomy: procedure text
Provenance: Egypt
Date: 3rd cent. BCE to 3rd cent. CE

Ossendrijver, M. and A. Winkler, 2018. Chaldeans on the Nile: Two Egyptian Procedure Texts with Babylonian System A1 and A2 for Mercury, in Scaffolding of Our Thoughts: Essays on Assyriology and the History of Science in Honor of Francesca Rochberg, eds. J. Crisostomo et al. (Leiden: Brill, 2018), 282-418

Lunar year of 13 synodic months calendrical concept

ḥsb.t 23.t n ỉꜥḥ rnp.t ꜥꜣ.t tꜣy

‘Numbering year 23 of the Moon is a great year.’

— P.Carlsberg 9 iii 17

Genre: astronomy
Provenance: Soknopaiou Nesos
Date: Second cent. CE

Neugebauer, O. & Parker, R.A. EAT 3 225

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2025). rnp.t ꜥꜣ.t (Lemma #219). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/219/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2025). rnp.t ꜥꜣ.t (Lemma #219). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/219/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2025). rnp.t ꜥꜣ.t (Lemma #219). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/219/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2025) rnp.t ꜥꜣ.t (Lemma #219), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/219/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac219,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2025},
	title = {rnp.t ꜥꜣ.t ({Lemma} #219)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/219/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/219/},
}