Rekeh-nedjes
| Rekeh-nedjes in hieroglyphics | ||||||
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Rkḥ-nds Small fire |
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prt Fourth month of the Peret period |
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Rekeh-nedjes ( Old and Middle Kingdom : Little Fire ) referred to the second coldest season in the Egyptian calendar , when the hearth was mostly still burning. From the predynastic period to the end of the Middle Kingdom, Rekeh-nedjes originally represented the eighth month of the Sothis calendar from the beginning of January to the beginning of February .
Alan Gardiner as well as Richard Anthony Parker suspect that Rekeh-nedjes changed the year form in the course of calendar history, which is why Rekeh-nedjes was postponed to the seventh month at the latest from the New Kingdom .
In the Ebers calendar around 1517 BC Rekeh-nedjes was in the second month of Peret and dated from January 15 to February 13 ( Elephantine ) and from January 20 to February 18 ( Memphis ).
Rekeh-nedjes represented the second rainiest month. For Alexandria the average amount is 49 mm (26% of the year). The associated rain- dean stars are mentioned in the Rekeh-nedjes decades 22 to 24. The name of the fourth month of Peret later changed to Parmouthi .
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.
- Heinz Schamp: Egypt: The old cultural land on the Nile on the way to the future - space, society, history, culture, economy - . Erdmann, Tübingen 1977, ISBN 3-7711-0263-4 , p. 26.
- Siegfried Schott : Ancient Egyptian festival dates. Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz / Wiesbaden 1950.