ỉḫy.t
Egyptian · noun
variants : ꜣḫ.t , : ỉḫe
Edited by: Andreas Winkler
Last edited: 2024-05-27

Literal translation
horizon
Categories
zodiac sign
Related Lemmata 12

1. Libra

1.a Libra zodiac sign

ꜣbd-4 šmw tꜣ ỉḫy

‘Mesore: Libra’

— O.Strasb.Dem. 521 10

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

2. Horizon

2.a Horizon zodiac sign

mh̭y tꜣ.wy rn⸗f ⌈ḏd⌉ tꜣ ỉh̭e tꜣ.wy ḏr⸗w tꜣy

‘The balance of the Two Lands is his name because it is the horizon of every land’

— P.Berol. 13603 iv 21

Genre: theological treatise Provenance: Egypt Date: 1st cent. BCE

W. Erichsen - S. Schott, Fragmente memphitischer Theologie in demotischer Schrift (Pap. demot. Berlin 13603), Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, Geistes- und sozialwiss. Kl., Jg. 1954, Nr. 7, Wiesbaden 1954


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2024). ỉḫy.t (Lemma #66). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/66/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2024). ỉḫy.t (Lemma #66). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/66/

MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2024). ỉḫy.t (Lemma #66). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/66/

Harvard
Winkler, A. (2024) ỉḫy.t (Lemma #66), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/66/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac66,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {ỉḫy.t ({Lemma} #66)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/66/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/66/},
}