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

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