ḥr-pꜣ-kꜣ

Egyptian noun

Last edited: 2023-11-01
Primary meaning Saturn
Literal translation Horus the bull
Variants
ḥr-pꜣ-kꜣ
ḥr-kꜣ
kꜣ
ⳅⲁⲣⲕⲟ ϩⲁⲣⲕⲟ Old Coptic
Edited by

Saturn planet

ḥr-pꜣ-kꜣ pꜣ syw | pꜣ-rꜥ pꜣy

‘Saturn is the star | of the Sun.’

— O.Strasb.Dem. 521 1-2

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. (2023). ḥr-pꜣ-kꜣ (Lemma #748). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/748/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Winkler, A. (2023). ḥr-pꜣ-kꜣ (Lemma #748). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/748/

MLA (9th)
Winkler, A. (2023). ḥr-pꜣ-kꜣ (Lemma #748). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/748/

Harvard
Winkler, A. (2023) ḥr-pꜣ-kꜣ (Lemma #748), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/748/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac748,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Winkler, Andreas},
	year = {2023},
	title = {ḥr-pꜣ-kꜣ ({Lemma} #748)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/748/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/748/},
}