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4 Recently, L. Depuydt5 considered the statement in the Chronicle as re­ ferring only to the "indictions" coinciding with Constantine's reign as distinct from preceding "indictions" based on a Coptic manuscript ( Vat. copt. e. to AD 297. The colo­ phon of this text written in cursive Greek and dated to 10 Abib of year 649 according to the era of the Martyrs (4 July AD 933) and to the 43rd cycle (κυκλ μγ') provides positive evidence in favour of the introduction of the 15-year period from AD 297 onwards.

Grumel, Chronologie, pp. 173, 301 and note 5. 31. Arvanitakis (supra note 15), p. 273; Grumel, Chronologie, p. 175; Samuel, GRC, pp. 154-55 and 158-67; Bickerman, Chronology, pp. 43-47. 42 day was called "ante diem bissextum Kalendas Martias". Hence, the "leap year" was called "annuus bissextus" in the Imperial age. At least from 46 BC the Roman year started with the Kalends of January. In order to create a stable and rational departing point for the subsequent use of the new calendar, Caesar had to add three months, compensating for the shortage of 90 days caused by the abandonment of intercalation.

38 where the Macedonian tradition is strong, the numerals including two letters are of­ ten inverted (ascending order), but sometimes both sequences occur in the same site. During this period up until the seventh century AD, the Jewish population em­ ployed its own (lunisolar) calendar; at that time the Muslim conquerors imposed a purely lunar one. The various calendars and calendar components encountered in the region and period under consideration are discussed below. 1. Syro-Macedonian ­ Egypto-Macedonian Calendars Macedonians had a lunisolar calendar of twelve months with 30 and 29 days, alternatively.

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