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On the structure and terminology of the Gaulish calendar

On the structure and terminology of the Gaulish calendar

Zavaroni, Adolfo

Paperback

Series: BAR International, Book 1609

Archaeology

Publisher Price: $40.00

ISBN10: 1407300261
ISBN13: 9781407300269
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports
Published: Mar 15 2007
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.28 Width: 8.27 Depth: 11.69
Language: English
The so-called Coligny Calendar was discovered in November 1897 by a Monsieur Roux in a field north of Coligny (Ain, France). He came across the fragments of a buried statue of a young male deity and, with it, the broken-up remains of what had once been a large bronze plaque. The more than 150 individual fragments, most of which bore writings and numerical values aligned to vertical lines of holes, were quickly recognized as pieces of a calendar, written in Roman capitals. The language was later recognized as Gaulish. The analysis proposed in this volume is that the plaque does not bear a solar calendar, but shows essentially the structure of a lunar calendar, based on a given yearly lunation pattern, and adapted to the solar course by means of two intercalary months.

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