Hathyr

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Hathyr in hieroglyphics
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Hat-heru
ḥwt-ḥrw
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3rd
month of the Achet period

Hathyr ( Egyptian Hut-heru ; Coptic Hathor ; Arabic Hatour ; month of Hathor ) was the Greek name for the third month of the Achet season in the Egyptian calendar and represented the time from early September to early October .

Alan Gardiner as well as Richard Anthony Parker suspect that Hathyr changed the year form in the course of calendar history.

From the predynastic period to the end of the Middle Kingdom , Hathyr originally represented the fourth month of the Sothis calendar as Hut-heru and was postponed to the third month at the latest from the New Kingdom .

literature

  • Rolf Krauss: Sothis and moon data: 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