sbgꜣ
Egyptian · noun
variants : sbkꜣ , : sbke , : sbk , : swgꜣ , : swgꜥ
Edited by: Andreas Winkler
Last edited: 2024-01-11
Meanings
Literal translation
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Categories
planet
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1. Mercury

1.a Mercury planet

sbkꜣ pꜣ syw ḏḥwty pꜣy

‘Mercury is the star of Thoth’

— O.Strasb.Dem. 521 3

Genre: astronomical list Provenance: Egypt Date: Roman

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

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APA (7th)
Winkler, A. (2024). sbgꜣ (Lemma #745). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/745/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2024). sbgꜣ (Lemma #745). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/745/
MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2024). sbgꜣ (Lemma #745). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/745/
Harvard
Winkler, A. (2024) sbgꜣ (Lemma #745), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/745/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac745,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {sbgꜣ ({Lemma} #745)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/745/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/745/},
}