Egyptian calendar - wikipedia Egyptian calendar A section of the hieroglyphic calendar at the Kom Ombo Temple, displaying the transition from Month XII to Month I without mention of the five epagomenal days. The sky goddess Nut and human figures representing stars and constellations from the star chart in the tomb of Ramses VI. The ancient Egyptian calendar was a solar calendar with a 365 - day year. The year consisted of three seasons of 120 days each, plus an intercalary month of 5 epagomenal days treated as outside of the year proper. Each season was divided into four months of 30 days. These twelve months were initially numbered within each season but came to also be known by the names of their principal festivals. Each month was divided into three 10 - day periods known as decans or decades. It has been suggested that during the Nineteenth Dynasty and the Twentieth Dynasty the last two days of each decan were usually treated as a kind of weekend for the royal craftsmen, with royal artisans free from work. Because this calendrical year was nearly a quarter of a day shorter than the solar year, the Egyptian calendar lost about one day every four years relative to the Gregorian calendar. It is therefore sometimes referred to as the wandering year ( Latin : annus vagus ), as its months rotated about one day through the solar year every 4 years. Ptolemy III 's Canopus Decree attempted to correct this through the introduction of a sixth epagomenal day every four years but the proposal was resisted by the Egyptian priests and people and abandoned until the establishment of the Alexandrian or Coptic calendar by Augustus. The introduction of a leap day to the Egyptian calendar made it equivalent to the reformed Julian calendar, although by extension it continues to diverge from the Gregorian calendar at the turn of most centuries. This civil calendar ran concurrently with an Egyptian lunar calendar which was used for some religious rituals and festivals. Some Egyptologists have described it as lunisolar, with an intercalary month supposedly added every two or three years to maintain its consistency with the solar year, but no evidence of such intercalation before the 4th century BC has yet been discovered. Contents 1 History 1.1 Prehistory 1.2 Lunar calendar 1.3 Civil calendar 1.4 Ptolemaic calendar 1.5 Roman calendar 2 Months 3 Legacy 4 See also 5 Notes 6 References 6.1 Citations 6.2 Bibliography 7 External links History Prehistory Setting a calendar by the Nile flood would be about as vague a business as if we set our calendar by the return of the Spring violets. -- H.E. Winlock The Nile flood at Cairo c. 1830. Current knowledge of the earliest development of the Egyptian calendar remains speculative. A tablet from the reign of the First - Dynasty pharaoh Djer ( c. 3000 BC ) was once thought to indicate that the Egyptians had already established a link between the heliacal rising of Sirius ( Ancient Egyptian : Spdt or Sopdet, `` Triangle '' ; Greek : Σῶθις, Sō̂this ) and the beginning of their year, but more recent analysis has questioned whether the tablet 's picture refers to Sirius at all. Similarly, based on the Palermo Stone, Scharff proposed that the Old Kingdom observed a 320 - day year but his theory has not become widely accepted. Some evidence suggests the early civil calendar had 360 days, although it might merely reflect the unusual status of the five epagomenal days as days `` added on '' to the proper year. With its interior effectively rainless for thousands of years, ancient Egypt was `` a gift of the river '' Nile, whose annual flooding organized the year into three broad seasons known to the Egyptians as : Flood ( Ancient Egyptian : Ꜣḫt, sometimes anglicized as Akhet ), Emergence ( Prt, sometimes anglicized as Peret ), and Low Water or Harvest ( Šmw, sometimes anglicized as Shemu ). The first lasted from roughly June to September, the second from roughly October to January, and the last from roughly February to May. As early as the reign of Djer ( c. 3000 BC, Dynasty I ), yearly records were being kept of the flood 's high - water mark. Neugebauer noted that a 365 - day year can be established by averaging a few decades of accurate observations of the Nile flood without any need for astronomical observations, although the great irregularity of the flood from year to year and the difficulty of maintaining a sufficiently accurate Nilometer and record in prehistoric Egypt has caused other scholars to doubt that it formed the basis for the Egyptian calendar. Lunar calendar A lunar calendar for 2017 The Egyptians appear to have used a purely lunar calendar prior to the establishment of the solar civil calendar in which each month began on the morning when the waning crescent moon could no longer be seen. Until the closing of Egypt 's pagan temples under the Byzantines, the lunar calendar continued to be used as the liturgical year of various cults. The month may have been divided into four `` weeks '' of 7 or 8 days, reflecting each quarter of the lunar phases. Because the exact time of morning considered to begin the Egyptian day remains uncertain and there is no evidence that any method other than observation was used to determine the beginnings of the lunar months prior to the 4th century BC, there is no sure way to reconstruct exact dates in the lunar calendar from its known dates. The difference between beginning the day at the first light of dawn or at sunrise accounts for an 11 -- 14 year shift in dated observations of the lunar cycle. It remains unknown how the Egyptians dealt with obscurement by clouds when they occurred and the best current algorithms have been shown to differ from actual observation of the waning crescent moon in about one - in - five cases. Parker and others have argued for its development into an observational and then calculated lunisolar calendar which used a 30 - day intercalary month every two to three years to accommodate the lunar year 's loss of about 11 days a year relative to the solar year and to maintain the placement of the heliacal rising of Sirius within its twelfth month. No evidence for such a month, however, exists in the present historical record. Temple Month Ꜣbd n ḥwt - nṯr in hieroglyphs A second lunar calendar is attested by a demotic astronomical papyrus dating to sometime after AD 144 which outlines a lunisolar calendar operating in accordance with the Egyptian civil calendar according to a 25 - year cycle. The calendar seems to show its month beginning with the first visibility of the waxing crescent moon, but Parker displayed an error in the cycle of about a day in 500 years, using it to show the cycle was developed to correspond with the new moon around 357 BC. This date places it prior to the Ptolemaic period and within the native Egyptian Dynasty XXX. Egypt 's 1st Persian occupation, however, seems likely to have been its inspiration. This lunisolar calendar 's calculations apparently continued to be used without correction into the Roman period, even when they no longer precisely matched the observable lunar phases. The days of the lunar month -- known to the Egyptians as a `` temple month '' -- were individually named and celebrated as stages in the life of the moon god, variously Thoth in the Middle Kingdom or Khonsu in the Ptolemaic era : `` He... is conceived... on Psḏntyw ; he is born on Ꜣbd ; he grows old after Smdt ''. Days of the lunar month Day Name Egyptian Meaning ( if known ) Psḏtyw Literal meaning unknown but possibly related to the Ennead ; the day of the New Moon. Tp Ꜣbd Ꜣbd `` Beginning the Month '' or `` The Month '' ; the beginning of the Crescent Moon. Mspr `` Arrival '' Prt Sm `` The Going Forth of the Sm '', a kind of priest 5 I͗ḫt Ḥr Ḫꜣwt `` Offerings upon the Altar '' 6 Snt `` The Sixth '' 7 Dnı͗t `` Partial '' ; the first - quarter day. 8 Tp Unknown 9 Kꜣp Unknown 10 Sı͗f Unknown 11 Stt Unknown 12 Unknown Unknown 13 Mꜣꜣ Sṯy Unknown 14 Sı͗ꜣw Unknown 15 Smdt Tp Smdt Literal meaning uncertain ; the day of the Full Moon. 16 Mspr Sn Nw Ḥbs Tp `` Second Arrival '' `` Covering the Head '' 17 Sı͗ꜣw Unknown 18 I͗ꜥḥ `` Day of the Moon '' 19 Sḏm Mdwf Unknown 20 Stp Unknown 21 Ꜥprw Unknown 22 Pḥ Spdt Unknown 23 Dnı͗t `` Partial '' ; the third - quarter day. 24 Knḥw Unknown 25 Stt Unknown 26 Prt `` The Going Forth '' 27 Wšb Unknown 28 Ḥb Sd Nwt `` The Jubilee of Nut '' 29 Ꜥḥꜥ Unknown 30 Prt Mn `` The Going Forth of Min '' Civil calendar Sirius ( bottom ) and Orion ( right ), seen from the Hubble Telescope. Together, the three brightest stars of the northern winter sky -- Sirius, Betelgeuse ( top right ), and Procyon ( top left ) -- can also be understood as forming the Winter Triangle. A Middle Kingdom star chart A hieroglyphic calendar at Elephantine. Further information : Sothic cycle The civil calendar was established at some early date in or before the Old Kingdom, with probable evidence of its use early in the reign of Shepseskaf ( c. 2510 BC, Dynasty IV ) and certain attestation during the reign of Neferirkare ( mid-25th century BC, Dynasty V ). It was probably based upon astronomical observations of Sirius whose reappearance in the sky closely corresponded to the average onset of the Nile flood through the 5th and 4th millennium BC. A recent development is the discovery that the 30 - day month of the Mesopotamian calendar dates as late as the Jemdet Nasr Period ( late 4th - millennium BC ), a time Egyptian culture was borrowing various objects and cultural features from the Fertile Crescent, leaving open the possibility that the main features of the calendar were borrowed in one direction or the other as well. The civil year comprised exactly 365 days, divided into 12 months of 30 days each and an intercalary month of 5 days, were celebrated as the birthdays of the gods Osiris, Horus, Set, Isis, and Nephthys. The regular months were grouped into Egypt 's three seasons, which gave them their original names, and divided into three 10 - day periods known as decans or decades. In later sources, these were distinguished as `` first '', `` middle '', and `` last ''. It has been suggested that during the Nineteenth Dynasty and the Twentieth Dynasty the last two days of each decan were usually treated as a kind of weekend for the royal craftsmen, with royal artisans free from work. Dates were typically expressed in a YMD format, with a pharaoh 's regnal year followed by the month followed by the day of the month. For example, the New Year occurred on I Akhet 1. Lord of Years Nb Rnpt in hieroglyphs The importance of the calendar to Egyptian religion is reflected in the use of the title `` Lord of Years '' ( Nb Rnpt ) for its various creator gods. Time was also considered an integral aspect of Maat, the cosmic order which opposed chaos, lies, and violence. The civil calendar was apparently established in a year when Sirius rose on its New Year ( I Akhet 1 ) but, because of its lack of leap years, it began to slowly cycle backwards through the solar year. Sirius itself, about 40 ° below the ecliptic, follows a Sothic year almost exactly matching that of the Sun, with its reappearance now occurring at the latitude of Cairo ( ancient Heliopolis and Memphis ) on 19 July ( Julian ), only two or three days later than its occurrence in early antiquity. Following Censorinus and Meyer, the standard understanding was that, four years from the calendar 's inception, Sirius would have no longer reappeared on the Egyptian New Year but on the next day ( I Akhet 2 ) ; four years later, it would have reappeared on the day after that ; and so on through the entire calendar until its rise finally returned to I Akhet 1 1460 years after the calendar 's inception, an event known as `` apocatastasis ''. Owing to the event 's extreme regularity, Egyptian recordings of the calendrical date of the rise of Sirius have been used by Egyptologists to fix its calendar and other events dated to it, at least to the level of the four - Egyptian - year periods which share the same date for Sirius 's return, known as `` tetraëterides '' or `` quadrennia ''. For example, an account that Sothis rose on III Peret 1 -- the 181st day of the year -- should show that somewhere 720, 721, 722, or 723 years have passed since the last apocatastasis. Following such a scheme, the record of Sirius rising on II Shemu 1 in 239 BC implies apocatastases on 1319 and 2779 BC ± 3 years. Censorinus 's placement of an apocatastasis on 21 July AD 139 permitted the calculation of its predecessors to 1322, 2782, and 4242 BC. The last is sometimes described as `` the first exactly dated year in history '' but, since the calendar is attested before Dynasty XVIII and the last date is now known to far predate early Egyptian civilization, it is typically credited to Dynasty II around the middle date. Heliacal rising of Sirius at Heliopolis Year Date Egyptian Julian Gregorian 3500 BC III Peret 3 July 16 June 18 3000 BC III Shemu 8 July 16 June 22 2500 BC III Akhet 8 July 16 June 26 2000 BC III Peret 14 July 17 June 30 1500 BC III Shemu 19 July 17 July 4 1000 BC III Akhet 19 July 17 July 8 500 BC III Peret 25 July 18 July 13 AD 1 III Shemu 30 July 18 July 16 AD 500 IV Akhet 2 July 20 July 22 The classic understanding of the Sothic cycle relies, however, on several potentially erroneous assumptions. Following Scaliger, Censorinus 's date is usually emended to 20 July but ancient authorities give a variety of ' fixed ' dates for the rise of Sirius. His use of the year 139 seems questionable, as 136 seems to have been the start of the tetraëteris and the later date chosen to flatter the birthday of Censorinus 's patron. Perfect observation of Sirius 's actual behavior during the cycle -- including its minor shift relative to the solar year -- would produce a period of 1457 years ; observational difficulties produce a further margin of error of about two decades. Although it is certain the Egyptian day began in the morning, another four years are shifted depending on whether the precise start occurred at the first light of dawn or at sunrise. It has been noted that there is no recognition in surviving records that Sirius 's minor irregularities sometimes produce a triëteris or penteteris ( three - or five - year periods of agreement with an Egyptian date ) rather than the usual four - year periods and, given that the expected discrepancy is no more than 8 years in 1460, the cycle may have been applied schematically according to the civil years by Egyptians and the Julian year by the Greeks and Romans. The occurrence of the apocatastasis in the 2nd millennium BC so close to the great political and sun - based religious reforms of Amenhotep IV / Akhenaton also leaves open the possibility that the cycle 's strict application was occasionally subject to political interference. The record and celebration of Sirius 's rising would also vary by several days ( equating to decades of the cycle ) in eras when the official site of observation was moved from near Cairo. The return of Sirius to the night sky varies by about a day per degree of latitude, causing it to be seen 8 -- 10 days earlier at Aswan than at Alexandria, a difference which causes Krauss to propose dating much of Egyptian history decades later than the present consensus. Ptolemaic calendar Following Alexander the Great 's conquest of the Persian Empire, the Macedonian Ptolemaic Dynasty came to power in Egypt, continuing to use its native calendars with Hellenized names. In 238 BC, Ptolemy III 's Canopus Decree ordered that every 4th year should incorporate a sixth day its intercalary month, honoring him and his wife as gods equivalent to the children of Nut. The reform was resisted by the Egyptian priests and people and was abandoned. Roman calendar Main article : Coptic calendar Egyptian scholars were involved with the establishment of Julius Caesar 's reform of the Roman calendar, although the Roman priests initially misapplied its formula and -- by counting inclusively -- added leap days every three years instead of every four. The mistake was corrected by Augustus through omitting leap years for a number of cycles until AD 4. As the personal ruler of Egypt, he also imposed a reform of its calendar in 26 or 25 BC, possibly to correspond with the beginning of a new Callipic cycle, with the first leap day occurring on 6 Epag. in the year 22 BC. This `` Alexandrian calendar '' corresponds almost exactly to the Julian, causing 1 Thoth to remain at 29 August except during the year before a Julian leap year, when it occurs on 30 August instead. The calendars then resume their correspondence after 4 Phamenoth / 29 February of the next year. Months For much of Egyptian history, the months were not referred to by individual names, but were rather numbered within the three seasons. As early as the Middle Kingdom, however, each month had its own name. These finally evolved into the New Kingdom months, which in turn gave rise to the Hellenized names that were used for chronology by Ptolemy in his Almagest and by others. Copernicus constructed his tables for the motion of the planets based on the Egyptian year because of its mathematical regularity. A convention of modern Egyptologists is to number the months consecutively using Roman numerals. A persistent problem of Egyptology has been that the festivals which give their names to the months occur in the next month. Gardiner proposed that an original calendar governed by the priests of Ra was supplanted by an improvement developed by the partisans of Thoth. Parker connected the discrepancy to his theories concerning the lunar calendar. Sethe, Weill, and Clagett proposed that the names expressed the idea that each month culminated in the festival beginning the next. Months Egyptological English Egyptian Greek Coptic Seasonal Middle Kingdom New Kingdom I Akhet Thoth 1st Month of Flood 1 Ꜣḫt Tḫy Ḏḥwtyt Θωθ Thōth Ⲑⲱⲟⲩⲧ Thout II II Akhet Phaophi 2nd Month of Flood 2 Ꜣḫt Mnht P-n - ip. t Φαωφί Phaōphí Ⲡⲁⲱⲡⲉ Paōpe III III Akhet Athyr 3rd Month of Flood 3 Ꜣḫt Ḥwt - ḥwr Ḥwt - ḥwr Ἀθύρ Athýr Ϩⲁⲑⲱⲣ Hathōr IV IV Akhet Choiak 4th Month of Flood 4 Ꜣḫt KꜢ - ḥr - KꜢ KꜢ - ḥr - KꜢ Χοιάκ Khoiák Ⲕⲟⲓⲁⲕ Ⲕⲓⲁϩⲕ Koiak Kiahk V I Peret Tybi 1st Month of Growth 1 Prt Sf - Bdt TꜢ - ꜥb Τυβί Tybí Ⲧⲱⲃⲓ Tōbi VI II Peret Mechir 2nd Month of Growth 2 Prt Rḫ Wr Mḫyr Μεχίρ Mekhír Ⲙⲉϣⲓⲣ Meshir VII III Peret Phamenoth 3rd Month of Growth 3 Prt Rḫ Nds P-n - imn - ḥtp. w Φαμενώθ Phamenṓth Ⲡⲁⲣⲉⲙϩⲁⲧ Paremhat VIII IV Peret Pharmuthi 4th Month of Growth 4 Prt Rnwt P-n - rnn. t Φαρμουθί Pharmouthí Ⲡⲁⲣⲙⲟⲩⲧⲉ Parmoute IX I Shemu Pachons 1st Month of Low Water 1 Šmw Ḫnsw P-n - ḫns. w Παχών Pakhṓn Ⲡⲁϣⲟⲛⲥ Pashons X II Shemu Payni 2nd Month of Low Water 2 Šmw Hnt - htj P-n - in. t Παϋνί Paüní Ⲡⲁⲱⲛⲓ Paōni XI III Shemu Epiphi 3rd Month of Low Water 3 Šmw Ipt - hmt Ipip Ἐπιφί Epiphí Ⲉⲡⲓⲡ Epip XII IV Shemu Mesore 4th Month of Low Water 4 Šmw Opening of the Year Wp Rnpt Birth of the Sun Mswt Rꜥ Μεσορή Mesorḗ Ⲙⲉⲥⲱⲣⲓ Mesori -- Intercalary Month Epagomenal Days -- Those upon the Year Hryw Rnpt ἐπαγόμεναι epagómenai Ⲡⲓⲕⲟⲩϫⲓ ⲛ̀ⲁⲃⲟⲧ Pikougi N'avot Legacy An 11th - century Coptic calendrical icon displaying two months of saints Main articles : Coptic calendar and Ethiopian calendar The reformed Egyptian calendar continues to be used in Egypt as the Coptic calendar of the Egyptian Church and by the Egyptian populace at large, particularly the peasants, to calculate the agricultural seasons. It differs only in its era, which is dated from the ascension of the Roman emperor Diocletian. Contemporary Egyptian farmers, like their ancient predecessors, divide the year into three seasons : winter, summer, and inundation. It is also associated with local festivals such as the annual Flooding of the Nile and the ancient Spring festival Sham el - Nessim. The Ethiopian calendar is based on this reformed calendar but uses Amharic names for its months and uses a different era. The French Republican Calendar was similar, but began its year at the autumnal equinox. British orrery maker John Gleave represented the Egyptian calendar in a reconstruction of the Antikythera mechanism. See also Egyptian chronology Egyptian astronomy Coptic & Ethiopian calendars Sothic cycle Notes Jump up ^ In the 30 years prior to the completion of the Aswan Low Dam in 1902, the period between Egypt 's `` annual '' floods varied from 335 to 415 days, with the first rise starting as early as 15 April and as late as 23 June. Jump up ^ For further variations, see Brugsch. Jump up ^ Variant representations of the day of the new moon include,,,,,,,,,,,, and ;, and in the Middle Kingdom ; and in later inscriptions. Jump up ^ In later sources, Psḏntyw. Jump up ^ Variant representations of the day of the first crescent moon include,,, ( properly N11A with the moon turned 90 ° clockwise ), and. Jump up ^ Variant representations of the 6th day of the lunar month include,,,,,, and. Jump up ^ Variant representations of the 1st - quarter day include and. Jump up ^ Properly, the first sign is not an animal jawbone but the rarer, similar - looking figure of a lion 's forepaw F118B. Jump up ^ Properly, the two circles are shrunk and placed within the curve of the sickle, forming U43. The male figure should be man sowing seeds A60, which includes a curve of dots coming from the man 's hand. Jump up ^ Variant representations of the day of the full moon include,,,,, and. Jump up ^ Properly, N12 \t1 or N12A, with the crescent moon turned 90 ° clockwise. Jump up ^ Variant representations of the 21st day of the lunar month include and. Jump up ^ Variant representations of the 24th day of the lunar month include. Jump up ^ Variant representations of the 27th day of the lunar month include D310. D310 is a foot crossed by a variant of pool with 2 or 3 diagonal strokes across it. Jump up ^ Properly, the loaf and diagonal strokes are shrunk and fit under the two sides of the standard. Jump up ^ Other possibilities for the original basis of the calendar include comparison of a detailed record of lunar dates against the rising of Sirius over a 40 year span, discounted by Neugebauer as likely to produce a calendar more accurate than the actual one ; his own theory ( discussed above ) that the timing of successive floods were averaged over a few decades ; and the theory that the position of the solar rising was recorded over a number of years, permitting comparison of the timing of the solstices over the years. A predynastic petroglyph discovered by the University of South Carolina 's expedition at Nekhen in 1986 may preserve such a record, if it had been moved about 10 ° from its original position prior to discovery. Jump up ^ It has been argued that the Ebers Papyrus shows a fixed calendar incorporating leap years, but this is no longer believed. Jump up ^ 1460 Julian years ( exactly ) or Gregorian years ( roughly ) in modern calculations, equivalent to 1461 Egyptian civil years, but apparently reckoned as 1460 civil years ( 1459 Julian years ) by the ancient Egyptians themselves. Jump up ^ Per O'Mara, actually ± 16 years when including the other factors affecting the calculated Sothic year. Jump up ^ Using Roman dating, he said of the relevant New Year that `` when the emperor Antoninus Pius was consul of Rome for a second time with Bruttius Prasens this same day coincided with the 13th day before the calends of August '' ( Latin : cum... imperatore quinque hoc anno fuit Antonino Pio II Bruttio Praesente Romae consulibus idem dies fuerit ante diem XII kal. Aug. ). Jump up ^ Meyer himself accepted the earliest date, though before the Middle Chronology was shown to be more likely than the short or long chronologies of the Middle East. Parker argued for its introduction ahead of apocatastasis on the middle date based on his understanding of its development from a Sothic - based lunar calendar. He placed its introduction within the range c. 2937 -- c. 2821 BC, noting it was more likely in the Dynasty II part of the range. Jump up ^ Specifically, the calculations are for 30 ° N with no adjustment for clouds and an averaged amount of aerosols for the region. In practice, clouds or other obscurement and observational error may have shifted any of these calculated values by a few days. Jump up ^ Latin :... ante diem XIII kal. Aug... Jump up ^ Most ancient sources place the heliacal rising of Sirius on 19 July, but Dositheus, probable source of the date of the 239 BC rising, elsewhere places it on 18 July, as do Hephaistion of Thebes, Salmasius, Zoroaster, Palladius, and Aëtius. Solinus placed it on the 20th ; Meton and the unemended text of Censorinus 's book on the 21st ; and Ptolemy on the day after that. Jump up ^ This seems to be the case, for example, with astronomical records of the XVIII Dynasty and its successors, including the Ebers Papyrus, which seem to have been made at Thebes rather than Heliopolis. Jump up ^ Reconstructed Egyptian accentuation Phaō̂phi ( Φαῶφι ). Jump up ^ Reconstructed Egyptian accentuation Khoíak ( Χοίακ ). Jump up ^ Reconstructed Egyptian accentuation Tŷbi ( Τῦβι ). Jump up ^ Reconstructed Egyptian accentuation Mekheír ( Μεχείρ ). Jump up ^ Reconstructed Egyptian accentuation Pharmoûthi ( Φαρμοῦθι ). Jump up ^ Reconstructed Egyptian accentuation Paûni ( Παῦνι ). Jump up ^ Reconstructed Egyptian accentuation Epeíph ( Ἐπείφ ). References Citations ^ Jump up to : Winlock ( 1940 ), p. 450. Jump up ^ Clagett ( 1995 ), pp. 10 -- 11. Jump up ^ Winlock ( 1940 ). ^ Jump up to : Tetley ( 2014 ), p. 40. Jump up ^ Winlock ( 1940 ), p. 452. Jump up ^ Herodotus ( 1890 ), Macaulay, ed., Histories, London : Macmillan, Book II, § 5. ^ Jump up to : Tetley ( 2014 ), p. 39. 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Question: what are the three seasons of the egyptian calendar
Answer: Flood