kby

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2024-01-11
Primary meaning firmament
Literal translation firmament
Variants
kby
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firmament noun

Previously understood to be a constellation.

ḏd m-rnp.t ḏd ḫpr ỉw kby sỉp špỉ ky ḏmꜥ kby šꜥ ms

‘So has "The book of that which is year" said that it is so, in that the firmament controls the "Book of ...". Another scroll: The firmament controls the child.’

— P.Leid. 384 ix 15-16

Genre: literary text
Provenance: Thebes
Date: 2nd century CE

W. Spiegelberg, 2017, Der Ägyptische Mythus vom Sonnenauge, der Papyrus der Tierfabeln, Kufi. Nach dem Leidener demotischen Papyrus I 384 (Strasbourg)

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APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2024). kby (Lemma #364). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/364/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2024). kby (Lemma #364). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/364/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2024). kby (Lemma #364). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/364/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2024) kby (Lemma #364), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/364/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac364,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {kby ({Lemma} #364)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/364/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/364/},
}