Schef-bedet
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Schef-bedet šf-bdt thresholds of the Emmer |
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prt Second month of the Peret period |
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Schef-bedet (also month of the min ) referred to the first month after sowing in the Egyptian calendar and means the emergence / swelling of the emmer. From the predynastic period to the end of the Middle Kingdom, Schef-bedet originally represented the sixth month of the Sothis calendar, the period from the beginning of November to the beginning of December .
Alan Gardiner as well as Richard Anthony Parker suspect that Schef-bedet changed the year form in the course of calendar history, which is why Schef-bedet was postponed to the fifth month at the latest from the New Kingdom .
In the Ebers calendar around 1517 BC Chr. Schef-bedet was on the fourth month of Achet and dated from November 16 to December 15 ( Elephantine ) and from November 21 to December 20 ( Memphis ).
The name of the second Peret month later changed to Mechir .
literature
- Wolfgang Helck , Eberhard Otto : Small Lexicon of Egyptology . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04027-0 , p. 191.
- 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