Harkhebi

Harchebi was an astronomer in Egypt of the Ptolemies. The only source is a hieroglyphic inscription, which was found in 1906 on a damaged statue, which probably represented Harchebi, by a farmer in a field near Tell Farun in Lower Egypt. The inscription was first dated to the early Ptolemaic period, an identification with the mentioned from Tebtunis in a papyrus dioecetes Archibius would shift his work in the middle or late first century BC.

A first French translation of the inscription of Georges Daressy appeared in 1916, another English was presented by Otto Neugebauer and Richard Anthony Parker in 1969. The text of the inscription reads:

Harchebi can not be taken for the tradition of astrology claim from the contents of the inscription out, as these Preisungsrede considered sober duties and work of an astronomical calendar savvy officials and meteorologists describes.

After Harchebi the lunar crater Harkhebi was named in 1979 by the IAU.