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Sect. VI.]
GREAT PANEGYRICAL YEAR.
59
years. This and analogy led me to the conclusion that
the ancient Egyptians had a Great Panegyrical Year of
365 Tropical Years, containing twelve Great Panegyrical
Months, and five intercalary years, corresponding to
the five Epagomense of the Vague Year. For Tropical
I now say Julian, being convinced that the Egyptians
believed the Julian to be a tropical and sidereal year
at the early period when their calendar was instituted.
The connection of the G. P. M. and its Division with
Sothis and Smat plainly shows that those periods were
composed of Julian years.
Having thus obtained the exact lengths of the G. P.
M. and the Division of the G. P. M., and an approxi-
mative length of the Great Panegyrical Year, or G. P.
Y., I next apply these results to the chronology as de-
rived from the monuments, but derived without the
help of dates, as will be seen in Part II. of this work;
and, examining certain dates of Panegyrical periods on
the monuments, I find the space from the first to the
second, from the second to the third, and from the
third to the fourth, as agreeable with the approxima-
tive chronology derived from the monuments as could
be expected.
But in making this application I find certain striking
peculiarities, which greatly assist me in fixing the exact
length of the G. P. Y. These peculiarities indicate
that the first G. P. Y. probably commenced with the
manifestation of Sothis; that the second did commence
with that of Smat; that the third probably commenced
with that of Smat; that the fourth did commence with
that of Sothis ; that the fifth did also commence with
that of Sothis; that the sixth probably commenced
with that of Smat; and that the seventh did com-
GREAT PANEGYRICAL YEAR.
59
years. This and analogy led me to the conclusion that
the ancient Egyptians had a Great Panegyrical Year of
365 Tropical Years, containing twelve Great Panegyrical
Months, and five intercalary years, corresponding to
the five Epagomense of the Vague Year. For Tropical
I now say Julian, being convinced that the Egyptians
believed the Julian to be a tropical and sidereal year
at the early period when their calendar was instituted.
The connection of the G. P. M. and its Division with
Sothis and Smat plainly shows that those periods were
composed of Julian years.
Having thus obtained the exact lengths of the G. P.
M. and the Division of the G. P. M., and an approxi-
mative length of the Great Panegyrical Year, or G. P.
Y., I next apply these results to the chronology as de-
rived from the monuments, but derived without the
help of dates, as will be seen in Part II. of this work;
and, examining certain dates of Panegyrical periods on
the monuments, I find the space from the first to the
second, from the second to the third, and from the
third to the fourth, as agreeable with the approxima-
tive chronology derived from the monuments as could
be expected.
But in making this application I find certain striking
peculiarities, which greatly assist me in fixing the exact
length of the G. P. Y. These peculiarities indicate
that the first G. P. Y. probably commenced with the
manifestation of Sothis; that the second did commence
with that of Smat; that the third probably commenced
with that of Smat; that the fourth did commence with
that of Sothis ; that the fifth did also commence with
that of Sothis; that the sixth probably commenced
with that of Smat; and that the seventh did com-