ḥsb.t

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2023-11-09
Primary meaning numbering year
Literal translation numbering year
Variants
ḥsb.t
ḥꜣ.t-sp The traditional transcription of the same word.
Edited by
regnal year calendrical concept
lunar year calendrical concept

ḥsb.t 5.t n 22(.t) tpy ꜣḫ.t ⌈2⌉7 (wnw.t) 9.t n hrw ḥr-sꜣ-ỉs.t pa twtw pa ḥr | p(ꜣ)-rꜥ ꜣḫ.t 1⌈4⌉ sbkꜣ wꜣḥ ... … ḥw.t | ḥsb.t 10.t mḥ-1.t | ỉꜥḥ ḏlꜣ.t 22 (ḥr-pꜣ)-štꜣ wꜣḥ | gnhḏ 12 (pꜣ)-nṯr-(dwꜣ) tbt(.w) 12 (pꜣ)-nṯr-(dwꜣ) | (ḥr-pꜣ)-kꜣ ḏlꜣ.t 8 (pꜣ)-nṯr-(dwꜣ) |(ḥr-pꜣ)-štꜣ ꜣḫ.t 3 (ḥr-pꜣ)-kꜣ wꜣḥ| (ḥr)-tšy tpy 8 (pꜣ)-nṯr-(dwꜣ) ⌈wꜣḥ⌉ | (pꜣ)-nṯr-(dwꜣ) rpy.t 12 tꜣy⸗f dny.t ḥꜥ⸗f wꜣḥ | sbkꜣ ꜣḫ.t 14 ⌈tꜣy⸗f dny.t ḥꜥ⸗f wꜣḥ (?)⌉

‘Regnal year 5 of 22, Month of Thoth, day 27, 9th (hour) of the day: Harsiesis, son of Tithoes, son of Horos: | Sun: Libra 1⌈4°⌉: (the terms of) Mercury: Adds | Opposite (?) (the) Sun … | Numbering year 10 First |Moon: Scorpio 22°: (the terms of) Jupiter: Adds | Cancer: 12°: (the terms of) Venus; Pisces 12°: (the terms of) Venus | Saturn: Scorpio 8°: (the terms of) Venus: | Jupiter: Libra 3°: (the terms of) Saturn: Adds | Mars: Aries 8°: (the terms of) Venus: ⌈Adds⌉ | Venus: Virgo 12°: its own terms: Adds | Mercury: Libra 14°: ⌈its own terms⌉: Adds’

— ANAshm.Mus.D.O. 641 1-9

Genre: horoscope
Provenance: Athribis
Date: 48 BCE

A. Winkler, 2022, The First Zodiac Sign and the Daimon: The Advent of an Astrological Tradition and Seven Elaborate Horoscopes, Studien our Alt'ägyptischen Culture 51: 267-319 302

Year in Callippic cycle astronomical phenomenon

tꜣ ꜣbꜣ(.t) n rn=s ḥsb.t 18.t wš ỉbd ⟨6⟩ ỉꜥḥ | [ỉr ꜣbꜣ(.t) pꜣ gnhḏ ỉbd-4] ꜣḫ.t sw 17

‘The named eclipse (in) year 18 (of the Callippic cycle) at the time of ⟨6⟩ months, the moon / eclipses (in) Cancer in Month 4 of Akhet, day 17’

— P.Berol. 13146-7 1

Genre: calendar treatise
Provenance: Abusir el-Meleq
Date: 1st cent. BCE

O. Neugebauer, Richard A. Parker, and Karl-Th. Zauzich, 1981, A Demotic Lunar Eclipse Text of the First Century, B. C., Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 125, No. 4 (Aug. 21, 1981) 312-327

Jones, P.Oxy.Astron, p. 14, noted that the year number refers to said the Callippic cycle.
Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2023). ḥsb.t (Lemma #518). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/518/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2023). ḥsb.t (Lemma #518). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/518/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2023). ḥsb.t (Lemma #518). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/518/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2023) ḥsb.t (Lemma #518), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/518/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac518,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2023},
	title = {ḥsb.t ({Lemma} #518)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/518/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/518/},
}