Pa-en-Chonsu
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abed-1 schemu 3bd-1 šmw First month of the Schemu period |
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Pa-en-Chonsu ( Greek Pachon ; Coptic Paschons ; Arabic بشنس Bashan ) was in the Egyptian calendar , the ancient Egyptian name of the first month of the season Schemu represented and the time from early March to early April .
background
Location in the calendar
Alan Gardiner as well as Richard Anthony Parker suspect that Pa-en-Chonsu changed the year form in the course of calendar history.
From the predynastic period until the end of the Middle Kingdom , Pa-en-Chonsu originally represented the tenth month of the Sothis calendar as Chonsu and shifted from the 19th Dynasty in the New Kingdom to the first month of the Schemu season.
Beginning of the flax harvest
The lunar calendar month Pa-en-Chonsu is documented several times from the records of the 12th dynasty as the month Chonsu for the beginning of the flax harvest and in the administrative calendar with the first work of picking out for the fourth month of Achet (February / beginning of March).
See also
literature
- Rolf Krauss : Sothis and moon dates. Studies on the astronomical and technical chronology of ancient Egypt (= Hildesheimer Egyptological contributions. Volume 20). Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1985, ISBN 3-8067-8086-X .
- Richard Anthony Parker : The calendars of ancient Egypt (= Studies in ancient oriental civilization. Volume 26). unaltered reprint of the Chicago 1950 edition; University Press, Chicago (Ill) 1979.
- Siegfried Schott : Altägyptische Festdaten (= treatises of the academy of sciences and literature / humanities and social science class. Volume 10). Steiner, Mainz 1950.