Pentecontad calendar
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pentecontad-calendar-181-6189870
title:
Pentecontad calendar
text:
The pentecontad calendar is an agricultural calendar system thought to be of Amorite origin in which the year is broken down into seven periods of fifty days, with an annual supplement of fifteen or sixteen days. Identified and reconstructed by Julius and Hildegaard Lewy in the 1940s, the calendar's use dates back to at least the 3rd millennium BCE in western Mesopotamia and surrounding areas. Used well into the modern age, forms of it have been found in Nestorianism and among the Fellahin of mo
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Ancient western Mesopotamian calendar using 7 periods of 50 days
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentecontad_calendar
date created:
2007-12-22T02:01:48Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T22:04:34Z
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