nkt

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2025-08-25
Primary meaning number
Literal translation thing
Variants
nkt
Edited by
number mathematical quantity

ỉw=k wꜣḥ nkt r pꜣy=f ỉry n.ỉm=w r pꜣy=f mꜣꜥ n ḥtp 1223 ꜥn

‘You shall add the numbers to one another, it makes the part of setting 1223 again.’

— ANAshm.D.O. 525+ 18

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

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2025). nkt (Lemma #229). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/229/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2025). nkt (Lemma #229). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/229/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2025). nkt (Lemma #229). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/229/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2025) nkt (Lemma #229), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/229/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac229,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2025},
	title = {nkt ({Lemma} #229)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/229/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/229/},
}