Menchet (month)
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Menchet Mnḫt clothes |
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3rd month of the Achet period |
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In the Egyptian calendar, Menchet designated the time of flooding and the third month of the Achet period . From the predynastic period to the end of the Middle Kingdom , Menchet originally represented the period from the beginning of August to the beginning of September as the third month of the Sothis calendar .
Alan Gardiner as well as Richard Anthony Parker suspect that Menchet changed the form of the year in the course of calendar history, which is why Menchet was postponed to the second month at the latest from the New Kingdom .
In the Ebers calendar around 1517 BC Menchet was in the first month of Achet and dated from August 18 to September 16 ( Elephantine ) and from August 23 to September 21 ( Memphis ).
The name of the third month of Achet later changed to Hathyr .
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.