Akhet (hieroglyph)

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N27
Akhet (horizon)
Egyptian hieroglyphs
This article is about the hieroglyph. For other uses, see Akhet (disambiguation).

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 WIKI