Coptic Epact Digit Three

For practical accounts and administrative records. Coptic is the later form of Egyptian, written in a Greek-based alphabet. Related cursive forms appear in documents from the eighth century onward; by the tenth century, a distinct system was in use as Arabic became common in administration. It follows the older Coptic letter-number tradition, modeled on Greek numerals, but uses different signs.

The Arabic label zimām means “register.” An epact is a calendar count of the moon’s age in relation to the solar year. This notation adds values from left to right, so a sequence’s value is the sum of its signs; 𐋣 contributes three.