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SOTHIC PERIOD

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 435 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SOTHIC

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PERIOD  , in
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ancient
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Egyptian
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chronology, the
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period in which the
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year of 365 days circled in
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succession through all the seasons . The tropical year, determined as it was in
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Egypt by the
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heliacal rising of Sirius (Sothis), was almost exactly the
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Julian year of precisely 3654 days (differing from the true
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solar year, which was II minutes less than this) . The sothic period was thus 1461 years . See EGYPT, Ancient, § F .

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