ꜣḫ.t

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2023-06-30
Primary meaning Akhet season
Literal translation Flooding period
Variants
ꜣḫ.t
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Akhet season calendrical concept

Corresponds to the flooding season.

tpy ꜣḫ.t ḏlꜣ(.t) | ỉbd-2 ꜣḫ.t pꜣ-[nty-ꜣtḥ] ỉbd-3 ꜣḫ.t pꜣ-ḥr-ꜥnḫ | ỉbd-4 ꜣḫ.t pꜣ-twtw-n-pꜣ-mw

‘(Month) 1 of Akhet: Scorpio; | month 2 of Akhet: ⌈Sagittarius⌉; month 3 of Akhet: Capricorn | month 4 of Akhet: Aquarius’

— O.Strasb.Dem. 521 10-12

Genre: astronomical list
Provenance: Thebes (?)
Date: 300 BCE - 300 CE

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

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2023). ꜣḫ.t (Lemma #633). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/633/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2023). ꜣḫ.t (Lemma #633). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/633/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2023). ꜣḫ.t (Lemma #633). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/633/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2023) ꜣḫ.t (Lemma #633), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/633/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac633,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2023},
	title = {ꜣḫ.t ({Lemma} #633)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/633/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/633/},
}