Hedvig Győry: Mélanges offerts a Edith Varga „Le lotus qui sort de terre” (Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts Supplément 1. Budapest, 2001)

LEO DEPUYDT: What Is Certain about the Origin of the Egyptian Civil Calendar?

years. The two operations at issue are therefore (1) multiplying by 4 and (2) dividing by %. Obviously, multiplying by a certain number is the same as dividing by its inverse. The recurrence of numbers that von Bomhard finds conspicuous can be explained by this sameness. But again, no one "planned" it that way. Leo Depuydt Department of Egyptology Brown University Providence