ḥr-ꜥnḫ

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2023-11-01
Primary meaning Capricorn
Literal translation goat face
Variants
ḥr face
ꜥnḫ goat
ḥr-ꜥnḫ
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Capricorn zodiac sign

[[ꜣbd-3 ꜣḫ]].t pꜣ ḥr-ꜥ⸢nḫ⸣

‘Hathor: Capricorn’

— O.Stras.Dem. 521.11

Genre: astronomical list
Provenance: Egypt
Date: 300 BCE - 300 CE

Neugebauer, O., 1943. Demotic Horoscopes, Journal of the American Oriental Society 63: 121-122


goat face common noun

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2023). ḥr-ꜥnḫ (Lemma #62). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/62/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2023). ḥr-ꜥnḫ (Lemma #62). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/62/

MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2023). ḥr-ꜥnḫ (Lemma #62). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/62/

Harvard
Winkler, A. (2023) ḥr-ꜥnḫ (Lemma #62), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/62/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac62,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2023},
	title = {ḥr-ꜥnḫ ({Lemma} #62)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/62/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/62/},
}