Pa-en-inet
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Pa-en-inet P3-n-jnt The (month) of the valley |
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2-nu-schemu 2-nw-šmw Second month of the Schemu period |
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Paoni ( Greek Payni ; Coptic Paoni ; Arabic Ba'ouna ) was in the Egyptian calendar , the ancient Egyptian name of the second month of the season Schemu and represented the time of the beginning of April to early May . The name of the month is derived from the associated valley festival .
background
Location in the calendar
Alan Gardiner as well as Richard Anthony Parker suspect that pa-en-inet changed the year form in the course of calendar history.
From the predynastic period to the end of the Middle Kingdom , Pa-en-inet originally represented the eleventh month of the Sothis calendar as Chenti-chet and shifted to the second month of the Shemu season at the latest from the New Kingdom .
Beginning of the wheat harvest
The lunar calendar month Pa-en-inet mentioned in the New Kingdom is documented several times from the records of the 12th dynasty as the month Chenti-chet for the beginning wheat harvest and in the administrative calendar with the first work for the first peret month (end of March / beginning of April) .
See also
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