Brugsch, Heinrich: Egypt under the pharaohs: a history derived entirely from the monuments (London, 1891)

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monuments, which thus more clearly determine the
time of the several feasts.

A. Feasts of the Year:—

1. Feast of the New year (vague or civil year).

2. Feast of the Great Year (Gothic or fixed year).

3. Feast of the Little Year (lunar year).

B. Feasts of the Months :—■

1. Feast of the great heat (at the beginning of Mekhir).

2. Feast of the little heat (at the beginning of Phame-

noth).

C. Feasts of the Days :—

1. The feasts on the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 8th, 15th, 17th,.

29th, and 30th day of each month.

2. The five intercalary days of the year.
L\ Special feasts :—

1. Feast of the rising of Sothis (Sirius).

2. Feast called Uak (the 17th to 18th of Tehuti).

3. Feast of Tehuti (the 19th of Tehuti).

4. Feast of navigation.

5. Feast of the commencement of the inundation.

6. Feast of the bark Tebet.

7. The great feast of joy (Panegyry).

8. The good feast on the mountain.

9. The feast called Asha.

A comparison of these feasts with the catalogue of
holidays given in the long inscription just quoted
enables us to perceive that the latter, although on the
whole less complete, nevertheless contains three feasts
more, namely, the feast of the beginning of the year,
another feast at the end of the year, and the feast of
Shetat.

The paintings with which the tomb of Khnum-
hotep is covered are invaluable for teaching of the arts
and trades, as well as of the domestic and public life
of the Egyptians of this time. Among the countless
representations with which the hall of sacrifice is
adorned, attention is due to the scene of the entry of a
strange race into Egypt. A family, belonging to the