grḥ

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2023-12-15
Primary meaning night
Literal translation night
Variants
grḥ
Edited by
night time interval

Used for nocturnal births

ḥsb.t 5.t n Ꜣntwnyns | ỉbd-3 (n) šmw sw ꜥrḳy n pꜣ Wynyn pꜣ ṯꜣy-wnw.t 3.t n grḥ

‘Regnal year 5 of Antoninus (Pius) | month 3 of Shemu, day 30 according to the Greeks, 3rd hour of the night’

— Griffith MSS 3.59 1-2

Genre: horoscope
Provenance: Thebes (?)
Date: 2nd cent. CE

A. Winkler, A Starry Summer Night in AD 142: A Theban Horoscope (Griffith MSS 3.59) in Context, in K. Donker van Heel, F.A.J. Hoogelijk, and C.J. Martin (eds), Hieratic, Demotic and Greek Studies and Text Editions: Of Making Many Books There Is No End. Festschrift for Sven P. Vleeming (Leiden:Brill), 298-308. 301

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2023). grḥ (Lemma #303). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/303/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2023). grḥ (Lemma #303). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/303/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2023). grḥ (Lemma #303). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/303/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2023) grḥ (Lemma #303), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/303/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac303,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2023},
	title = {grḥ ({Lemma} #303)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/303/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/303/},
}