mꜣꜥ ḥtp

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2025-08-25
Primary meaning step
Literal translation Part of setting
Variants
mꜣꜥ ḥtp
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step (morning last) synodic phenomenon

(n)-ṯꜣy ỉsw 5 šꜥ ḥtr.w 30 r swsw 85 ỉw=f mšꜥ any ỉwt 20 | r mꜣꜥ ḥtp 3 r swsw 1 ỉw=k ỉr 3 r sp 85 r 255

‘From Aries 5° to Gemini 30° makes 85 degrees, proceeding at the rate of 0;20°, as the part of setting, 3 (of them) make 1 degree. You shall multiply 3 times 85, it makes 255.’

— ANAshm.D.O. 525+ 10-11

Genre: mathematical astronomy: procedure text
Provenance: Egypt

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). mꜣꜥ ḥtp (Lemma #228). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/228/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2025). mꜣꜥ ḥtp (Lemma #228). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/228/

MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2025). mꜣꜥ ḥtp (Lemma #228). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/228/

Harvard
Winkler, A. (2025) mꜣꜥ ḥtp (Lemma #228), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/228/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac228,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2025},
	title = {mꜣꜥ ḥtp ({Lemma} #228)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/228/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/228/},
}