Akhet

One of the three seasons of Ancient Egypt, coming after Shemu and before Peret; Inundation.

Proper noun

  1. One of the three seasons of Ancient Egypt, coming after Shemu and before Peret; Inundation.
    • As Janssen noted, the information covering the first five days of III akhet is not quite the same in both ostraca. - 2003, Koen Donker Van Heel, B. J. J Häring, Writing in a Workmen's Village: Scribal Practice in...
    • The lunar month in question would have started on II Akhet 17. - 2003, The synchronisation of civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the second millennium B.C. II: proceedings of the SCIEM 2000—EuroConference...
    • I mean it’s the time of the year — Akhet. The time when the river rises.… Akhet brings us food. - 2009, Terry Deary, Egyptian Tales: The Plot on the Pyramid, page 5:

Origin

Borrowed from Egyptian ꜣḫt, A-M8-x:t.

Noun

  1. The region in the sky in which the sun tarries just before it rises or after it sets.
    • The concept of the Akhet was a practical explanation of why light fades gradually after sunset and appears gradually before sunrise, instead of disappearing and reappearing with the sun all at once. - 2000, James P....
    • Within the tomb, indeed within the coffin, the ‘house of life’, the deceased lay facing the east and the world of the living, the Akhet, and the rising sun. - 2006, Peter Robinson, “The Locational Significance of...
    • Recitation. The sky’s two reedfloats have been set by the Dayboat for the Sun, that the Sun might cross on them to where Horus of the Akhet is, to the Akhet. - 2007, trans. James P. Allen, The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid...

Origin

Borrowed from Egyptian ꜣḫt, Ax-x*t:N18.

Forms

Akhets