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Date Converter for Ancient Egypt; Calendrica Includes the Egyptian civil calendar with years in Ptolemy's Nabonassar Era (year 1 = 747 BC) as well as the Coptic, Ethiopic, and French calendars. Civil, ver. 4.0, is a 25kB DOS program to convert dates in the Egyptian civil calendar to the Julian or Gregorian ones
The Coptic Leap Year follows the same rules as the Julian Calendar so that the extra month always has six days in the year before a Julian Leap Year. [7] The year starts on the Feast of Neyrouz, the first day of the month of Thout, the first month of the Egyptian year. For 1900 to 2099 it coincides with the Gregorian Calendar's 11 September, or ...
The intercalary month or epagomenal days [1] of the ancient Egyptian, Coptic, and Ethiopian calendars are a period of five days in common years and six days in leap years in addition to those calendars' 12 standard months, sometimes reckoned as their thirteenth month.
In the case of the Sothic cycle the two cycles are the Egyptian civil year and the Sothic year. The Sothic year is the length of time for the star Sirius to visually return to the same position in relation to the sun. Star years measured in this way vary due to axial precession, [9] the movement of the Earth's axis in relation to the sun.
Hathor (Coptic: Ϩⲁⲑⲱⲣ, Hathōr), also known as Athyr (Ancient Greek: Ἀθύρ, Athýr) and Hatur [1] (Arabic: هاتور), is the third month of the ancient Egyptian and Coptic calendars. It lies between November 10 and December 9 of the Gregorian calendar.
This is a famous conundrum not just in Egyptian but also in Aegean chronology, as the radiocarbon date for the eruption, between 1627 and 1600 BC (p=5%), [16] is off by a full century compared to the date traditionally accepted in archaeology of c. 1500 BC.
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Its year was divided into 3 seasons, 12 months, 36 decans, or 360 days with another 5 epagomenal days [57] —celebrated as the birthdays of five major gods [58] but feared for their ill luck [59] —added "upon the year". The Egyptian months were originally simply numbered within each season [60] but, in later sources, they acquired names from ...