ḫꜥ ỉmnṱ
Egyptian · noun
Edited by: Andreas Winkler
Last edited: 2025-08-25
Meanings
Literal translation
western rising
Categories
synodic phenomenon
Related Lemmata 2 ›

1. evening first

1.a evening first synodic phenomenon

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

‘Mercury | its western rising 1513 | 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

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APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2025). ḫꜥ ỉmnṱ (Lemma #220). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/220/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2025). ḫꜥ ỉmnṱ (Lemma #220). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/220/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2025). ḫꜥ ỉmnṱ (Lemma #220). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/220/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2025) ḫꜥ ỉmnṱ (Lemma #220), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/220/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac220,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2025},
	title = {ḫꜥ ỉmnṱ ({Lemma} #220)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/220/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/220/},
}