Ta-abet
Ta-abet in hieroglyphics | |||||
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Ta-abet T3-ˁbt The (month) of the moment |
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1-nu-peret 1-nw-prt First month of the Peret period |
Ta-abet (also Tabet, Tebet ; Greek Tybi ; Coptic Tobi ; Arabic Touba ) as the month of Min in the Egyptian calendar was the ancient Egyptian name of the first peret month and represented the season from the beginning of November to the beginning of December .
Alan Gardiner as well as Richard Anthony Parker suspect that the month Schef-bedet changed the year form in the course of the calendar history, which is why Schef-bedet shifted from the sixth to the fifth month and was renamed Ta-abet from the 19th dynasty in the New Kingdom .
The reason for this was the link between Sopdet and the heliacal rise of Sirius , which lasted until the end of the second millennium BC. Chr. Slowly migrated from the beginning of June to the beginning of July and was ultimately jointly responsible for the shifting of the months.
literature
- Wolfgang Helck , Eberhard Otto : Small Lexicon of Egyptology. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04027-0 , p. 191.
- 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.
- Siegfried Schott : Ancient Egyptian festival dates. Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz / Wiesbaden 1950.