Pa-en-Ipet
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Pa-en-Ipet P3-n-Jpt The (month) of Ipet |
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2-nu-achet 2-nw-3ḫt Second month of the Achet period |
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Paopi ( Greek Phaophi ; Coptic Paopi ; Arabic Baba ) was in the Egyptian calendar , the ancient Egyptian name of the second month of the season Akhet in the Egyptian calendar and represented the time of the beginning of August to early September .
The name of the month is derived from the Opet festival , which was first mentioned in writing under Hatshepsut . Alan Gardiner as well as Richard Anthony Parker suspect that Pa-en-Ipet changed the year form in the course of calendar history.
From the predynastic period to the end of the Middle Kingdom , Pa-en-Ipet originally represented the third month of the Sothis calendar as Menchet and shifted to the second month from the 19th dynasty in 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