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Akhet (horizon) in hieroglyphs | ||
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Akhet ( Ancient Egyptian: Ꜣḫt; Gardiner: N27) is an Egyptian hieroglyph that represents the sun rising over a mountain. It is translated as " horizon" or "the place in the sky where the sun rises". [1] Betrò describes it as "Mountain with the Rising Sun" (The hieroglyph for "mountain" is 𓈋) and an ideogram for "horizon". [2]
Akhet appears in the Egyptian name for the Great Pyramid of Giza (Akhet Khufu), [3] and in the assumed name of Akhetaten, the city founded by pharaoh Akhenaten. [4] It also appears in the name of the syncretized form of Ra and Horus, Ra-Horakhty (Rꜥ Ḥr Ꜣḫty, "Ra–Horus of the Horizons"). [5]
In ancient Egyptian architecture, the pylon mirrored the hieroglyph. [6] [7] The symbol is sometimes connected with the astrological sign of Libra [8] and the Egyptian deity Aker, who guards the eastern and western horizons.
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Akhet (horizon) in hieroglyphs | ||
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Akhet ( Ancient Egyptian: Ꜣḫt; Gardiner: N27) is an Egyptian hieroglyph that represents the sun rising over a mountain. It is translated as " horizon" or "the place in the sky where the sun rises". [1] Betrò describes it as "Mountain with the Rising Sun" (The hieroglyph for "mountain" is 𓈋) and an ideogram for "horizon". [2]
Akhet appears in the Egyptian name for the Great Pyramid of Giza (Akhet Khufu), [3] and in the assumed name of Akhetaten, the city founded by pharaoh Akhenaten. [4] It also appears in the name of the syncretized form of Ra and Horus, Ra-Horakhty (Rꜥ Ḥr Ꜣḫty, "Ra–Horus of the Horizons"). [5]
In ancient Egyptian architecture, the pylon mirrored the hieroglyph. [6] [7] The symbol is sometimes connected with the astrological sign of Libra [8] and the Egyptian deity Aker, who guards the eastern and western horizons.