Coptic Epact Number Seventy

𐋰 means seventy in the Coptic epact numeral system. These numerals also appear in Arabic records and Judaeo-Arabic writing—Arabic written in Hebrew letters—not only in Coptic texts.

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What 𐋰 means

It stands for seventy. Coptic number writing appears in records from the eighth century onward; this distinct quick-writing system took shape in Egypt during the tenth century for administration.

The signs grew from Coptic letter numerals, where letters also carried number values, and drew on Greek handwriting. In Arabic, they were also called zimām numerals, or “register letters.” Egyptian Muslim and Jewish communities used them mainly in commercial accounts, as well as in calendars, astronomy, and manuscript page numbers. A number string adds the signs’ values from left to right, with larger values first.

Questions people ask

Does epact mean a moon sign?

No. Here “epact” names this numeral family and comes from a Greek word meaning “imported.” In calendar tables, an epact is the Moon’s age on the first day of the year; that separate use explains the lunar association.