sbgꜣ

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2024-01-11
Primary meaning Mercury
Literal translation ?
Variants
sbkꜣ
sbke
sbk
swgꜣ
swgꜥ
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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


Cite this entry
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: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac745,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {sbgꜣ ({Lemma} #745)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/745/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/745/},
}