Hieroglyphics of Horapollo: Book I: LXVI. How a Month
Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, tr. Alexander Turner Cory, [1840]
To represent a month, they depict as before explained the figure of the MOON when it has attained the age of eight and twenty days of equal lengths, each day containing twenty-four
hours, for during these it is apparent, and in the remaining two it is in a state of evanescence.
84:2 Treb. om. this chap.—See illustrations of Chap. 4.