Month of Hathor

Hathyr (Egyptian hat - heru; Coptic Hathor; Arab Hatour; month of Hathor ) was the Greek name of the third month of the season Akhet in the Egyptian calendar and represented the period from early September to early October.

Alan Gardiner as well as Richard Anthony Parker suspect Hathyr changed shape over the years the calendar history.

Represented by the predynastic period until the end of the Middle Kingdom Hathyr as a hat - heru originally the fourth month of the Sothis calendar and shifted the latest from the New Kingdom to the third month.

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