Chenti-chet
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Chenti-chet Ḫntj-ẖt The one of the valley |
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3-nu-schemu 3-nw-šmw Third month of the Schemu period |
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Wepet-em-asech-bedet Wpt-m-3sḫ-bdt Start of harvesting emmer wheat |
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Khenti-chet called the Egyptian calendar the harvest period and the third month of the season Schemu . The name "Der des Tales" refers to the simultaneous valley festival . From the predynastic period to the end of the Middle Kingdom , Chenti-chet originally represented the eleventh month of the Sothis calendar from April 1 to April 30.
background
Location in the calendar
Alan Gardiner as well as Richard Anthony Parker suspect that Chenti-chet changed the year form in the course of calendar history, which is why Chenti-Chet was postponed to the tenth month at the latest from the New Kingdom .
In the Ebers calendar around 1517 BC Chenti-chet was on the first Schemu month and dated from April 15 to May 14 ( Elephantine ) and from April 21 to May 20 ( Memphis ).
The name of the third Schemu month later changed to Epiphi .
Beginning of the wheat harvest
The lunar calendar month Payni mentioned in the New Kingdom is documented several times from the records of the 12th dynasty as the month Chenti-chet for the beginning of the wheat harvest and the first work is set in the administrative calendar for the first peret month (end of March / beginning of April).
See also
literature
- Rolf Krauss : Sothis and moon dates: studies on the astronomical and technical chronology of ancient Egypt. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1985, ISBN 3-8067-8086-X
- Richard Anthony Parker : The calendars of ancient Egypt. Chicago Press, Chicago 1950.
- Siegfried Schott : Ancient Egyptian Festival Dates , Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz / Wiesbaden 1950.