10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOTHIC YEAR»
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Sothic year in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt
But this would have made it impossible to keep track of those dates that
depended upon the fixed (Sothic) year and the cycle of 1,461 civil years to one
Sothic New Year. This, along with the Egyptian designation of Sothis as the Great
Provider, ...
According to Censorinius, the Great Sothic Year occurred in A.D. 140, but
according to Theon, it occurred in 26 B.C. Meyer subtracted multiples of 1,460
years from A.D. 140 and proposed 4240 B.C. as a totally certain date for the ...
3
The Bible Myth: The African Origins of the Jewish People
Then they had to find some archaeological records linking events in Egypt to
specific dates within the Sothic Year. Once they had a Sothic Year date it could
be converted into an absolute year by determining how many Sothic days passed
...
4
Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century: ...
This difference rapidly provokes a seasonal discrepancy of almost a month in
120 years, and a complete seasonal inversion in 7.5 centuries. b) The Sothic
Year "Sothic year" is the lapse of time separating two appearances of Sirius after
its ...
Sothic cycle. The 1st of Thoth of the civil year coincided with the 6th of the
Epagomense of the Sothic year in the first year of the cycle ; and in the remaining
1460 years it coincided with each of the 365 days of the ordinary Sothic year for
four ...
6
Calendars in Antiquity: Empires, States, and Societies
According to the Ebers calendar scheme, this extra day could only have been
added at the end of the Sothic year, and thus would have been separate from the
five epagomenal days. The 'Sothic' interpretation of the Ebers calendar has fallen
...
7
The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy
The 1st of Thoth of the civil year coincided with the 6th of the Epagomenae of the
Sothic year in the first year of the cycle ; and in the remaining 1460 years it
coincided with each of the 365 days of the ordinary Sothic year for four years in ...
Royal Irish Academy, 1873
The 1st of Thoth of the civil year coincided with the 6th of the Epagomena? of the
Sothic year in the first year of the cycle ; and in the remaining 1460 years it
coincided with each of the 365 days of the ordinary Sothic year for four years in ...
Royal Irish Academy, 1867
9
Ancient Egyptian Science: Calendars, clocks, and astronomy
were omitted from the reckoning in the civil calendar, as is evidenced by the fact
that the first day (or feast day) of each month of the Sothic year fell on the 9th day
of all the successive months of the civil year in the Ebers calendar, though one ...
10
The Encyclopædia Britannica, or, Dictionary of arts, ...
Vagus Year. Sothic Year. Egyptian Julian Year. Nam ps of months. I Hnrce jEg., p
. 3, et seqq. 8 Id., p. 5-7, pi. 1, No. 2. 3 Id., p. 9. * II., pp. 31, 32. M. Ulot considers
this calendar to be of a Vague Year, Reeherehet de Quclques Dates Absoluts, ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOTHIC YEAR»
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Sothic year is used in the context of the following news items.
The «Antikythera Mechanism» in Sydney
The outer ring is marked off with the days of the 365-day Egyptian calendar, or the Sothic year, based on the Sothic cycle. Inside this, there is a second dial ... «Greek Reporter, Dec 09»