Hat-here
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Hat-heru ḥwt-ḥrw |
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3ḫt Fourth month of the Achet period |
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Hut-heru ( month of Hathor ) denoted the time of flooding and the fourth month of the Achet period in the Egyptian calendar . From the predynastic period to the end of the Middle Kingdom , Hut-heru, originally the fourth month of the Sothis calendar, represented the period from mid-September to mid-October .
Alan Gardiner as well as Richard-Anthony Parker suspect that Hut-heru changed the year form in the course of calendar history, which is why Hut-heru was postponed to the third month at the latest from the New Kingdom .
In the Ebers calendar around 1517 BC In BC Hut-heru was on the second month of Achet and dated from September 17 to October 16 ( Elephantine ) and from September 22 to October 21 ( Memphis ).
The name of the fourth month of Achet later changed to Choiak .
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.