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51Literary textT-S NS 219.29
Primary language
Hebrew
New discovery of a copy of the Book of the Calendar Controversy. About the disagreement between Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia on how to …
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- calendar
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52LetterBL OR 4856.1
Primary language
Hebrew
Recto: Hebrew letter of appeal from the old, poor man Yosef b. Elazar ha-Kohen to Avraham ha-Sar b. Elazar. The body of the letter occupies …
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- appeal
- calendar
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53Literary textT-S NS 194.92 + T-S 8K4
Primary language
Hebrew
Two folios of this 12-folio manuscript of the Book of the Calendar Controversy, about the disagreement between Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia on how …
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- calendar
- controversy
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2021
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54Literary textENA 2555.1 + T-S 10K3 + T-S NS 175.57 + ENA 2556.1
Primary language
Hebrew
Manuscript of the Book of the Calendar Controversy, about the disagreement between Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia on how to calculate the calendar year …
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35046
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55LetterT-S AS 160.96
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
This text is preserved in one very fragmentary folio, T-S AS 160.96. What survives indicates that it is about the midday calendar limit, whereby the …
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- calendar
- controversy
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56LetterBodl. MS Heb. d.74/31 + T-S 13K2.4 + T-S 13K2.5 + Bodl. MS Heb. d.74/30
Document date
922 CE
Primary language
Hebrew
Collection of letters relating to the calendar controversy of 921–22. This is part of what Sacha Stern (2020) calls the Letters Miscellany: Letter 4 of …
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57LetterT-S 10J32.1 + Lévi 1900b + T-S NS 98.18 + Bodl. MS heb. d 74/27
Primary language
Hebrew
Letter 1 of 4 of Letters Miscellany, a collection of letters representing both sides of the calendar controversy. Letters 1 and 2 are pro-Babylonian. Both …
Fol. 1 recto
1. ישראל עוד כתב כי על כל המעשה נאמ' לא תסיג גבול רעך ולא התבונן
2. בתוך הפסוק שכת' בו אשר גבלו ראשונים והגבולות האלה המתוחמים בארבעה
3. שע…
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- calendar
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34548
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58List or tableJRL SERIES A 289
Document date
5581 Anno Mundi (9 September 1820–26 September 1821 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
Calendar in Hebrew, badly damaged. The year 5581 AM is barely visible in the upper right corner (1820/21 CE).
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- 19th
- calendar
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59Paraliterary textT-S NS 98.17
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Calendar for years 4756–4757 of the Era of Creation (= 995-996 to 996-997 CE) and 4760-4761 of the Era of Creation (= 999-1000 to 1000-1001 …
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- calendar
- fgp stub
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2019
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60Paraliterary textT-S NS 98.37
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: calendrical text discussing the months of Marḥešvan and Kislev. Verso: jottings.
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- calendar
- fgp stub
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2019
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61List or tableAIU VIII.E.52 + BL OR 5565B.7
Consecutive bifolia on the calendar in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi spanning the years 1204-07 and 1209–09 respectively.
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- calendar
- moshe b. levi
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62Literary textT-S NS 262.17 + T-S AS 155.112
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
This recently discovered document presents a detailed account of the calendar controversy from the perspective of a Qaraite. It is also the only source confirming …
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- calendar
- controversy
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63LetterT-S 13K2.3 + Bodl. MS Heb. d 74/29
Primary language
Hebrew
Letter 2 of 4 of Letters Miscellany, a collection of letters representing both sides of the calendar controversy. Letter 2, of which only one folio …
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- calendar
- controversy
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64LetterT-S 13K2.1 + Bodl. MS Heb. d 74/28 + T-S 13K2.2 + T-S NS 309.68b
Primary language
Hebrew
Letter 3 of 4 of Letters Miscellany, a collection of letters representing both sides of the calendar controversy. Letter 3 responds to a letter from …
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- calendar
- controversy
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65Literary textT-S 8K5
This manuscript is the earliest copy we have of the Book of the Calendar Controversy. About the disagreement between Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia …
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- calendar
- controversy
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66LetterT-S Ar.29.101
Document date
1179–1180 CE
Primary language
Arabic
Letter in Arabic script. Related to the 12th-century India trade. Mentions Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Abū Naṣr al-Isrāʾīlī al-Tājir (the trader) who arrived from Egypt this …
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- calendar
- india book unedited
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67List or tableJRL SERIES A 34
Primary language
Hebrew
Calendar in Hebrew, 3 folios with many details of holidays. No specific year appears but it may be possible to ascertain its occurrence because many …
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- 18th or 19th c
- calendar
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68LetterT-S 8G7.1
Letter from the head of the Gola concerning the calendar. Describes his opinion about the need to shorten two months (to 29 days) and explains …
ע"א
1. דליהו כולן וכל יש אגודה [אחת ב]חדשים
2. ובכל מועדים וְבָהדִין מנהגא ק[א הוו] מִדברין [[א]]
3. אבהתן ומתיבאתא עד הינא והי[א] שתא דהיה
4. שנת אלפא ומאה …
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- calendar
- communal
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2017
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5943
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69Paraliterary textT-S AS 146.92
Calendrical. Mentions the names of months and days, a leap year and cycles. CUDL
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- calendar
- fgp stub
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2019
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21625
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70Literary textT-S NS 98.51
Calendrical or astrological work mentioning the months of January (יונאריס) and February (פבראריס) and the calends (קלנדס). Information from FGP.
recto, left side
1. [......]ה יהא יודע חדשי ש[מש]
2. א [.....]חד חֹדֶשׁ יש בו ל̇ יום ו[י̇ שעות]
3. וחצי ו[הן] עולים שלוש מאות וש[שים]
4. וחמש[ה ימים ושש] שׁעות …
recto, left side
1. … will know the solar months
2. … each month has 30 days and 10 hours
3. and a half, which comes to three hundred and sixty-
4. five days an…
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- calendar
- latin words
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2019
PGPID
32716
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71Paraliterary textT-S NS 98.63
Primary languages
Arabic, Hebrew
Calendrical calculations and jottings in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
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- arabic script
- calendar
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2018
PGPID
29388
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72List or tableENA 2689.3
Document date
5574 Anno Mundi (25 September 1813–14 September 1814 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
Calendar for the year 5574 AM (1813/14 CE) with Jewish holidays and some notes about corresponding dates within the Ḥijrī calendar and the constellations (Cancer, …
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- 19th c
- calendar
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40098
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73Literary textT-S 10K4
Primary language
Hebrew
Latest, most formal, and most perfected, copy of the Book of the Calendar Controversy. About the disagreement between Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia on …
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- calendar
- controversy
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74LetterT-S AS 83.258
Primary language
Hebrew
The text is responding, in the fragment extant, to two arguments that were made by ben Meir against the Babylonians at the time of the …
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- calendar
- controversy
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75Paraliterary textT-S NS 98.47
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
A brief narrative of the calendar controversy of 921/2 appears within a treatise or manual in Judaeo-Arabic on the Jewish calendar, which was composed and …
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- calendar
- controversy
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2021
PGPID
34614
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76LetterStras. 4038/1–6
Geonic responsum about the calendar controversy of Ben Meir, dated 994–95 CE. It is attributed to Hayye Gaon. Preserved here is the second of two …
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- calendar
- controversy
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77List or tableJRL SERIES A 1273
Document date
Rabīʿ I 1243 Hijrī (22 September 1827–21 October 1827 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
Calendar in Hebrew for 5582 AM. The calendar retains a reference to the calendrical correspondence of Rabīʿ I 1243 AH which is 1827 CE.
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- 19th c
- calendar
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78List or tableENA NS 44.21
Calendar. In Hebrew script.
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- calendar
- list
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2017
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12634
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79List or tableBL OR 10126(1).2
Primary language
Hebrew
Calendar for maḥzors 258 (starting 1122 CE) through maḥzor 261 (ending 1199 CE). Will be a useful resource for dating the handful of Geniza documents …
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- calendar
- mahzors
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80LetterENA 2555.1
Primary language
Hebrew
Letter in Hebrew narrating the trouble caused by Ben Meir including quoting at length a letter sent by the elders. Entered in Geniza collection as …
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2017
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12023
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81Literary textBodl. MS heb. f 102/37
Literary work on the calendar, in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Bodl. MS heb. f 102/36 and Bodl. MS heb. f 102/38–39 may …
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- calendar
- moshe b. levi
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2019
PGPID
19554
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82LetterMoss. II,153.3
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Verso (original use): Small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Reused on recto for a text discussing the calendar and liturgical additions.
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- calendar
- liturgy
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83List or tableJRL Gaster heb. ms 1774/9
Primary language
Hebrew
Calendar. Late. Colorful floral illustrations, with the text in circular medallions. The surrounding fragments are either from the same calendar or very similar ones.
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- calendar
- illumination
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32359
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84Literary textJRL Gaster heb. ms 2110a/22
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Essay on the intercalation of the calendar: אדא ארדנא אלוקוף עלי עלם אלחיבור. The hand is familiar, perhaps 13th century.
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- calendar
- literary with documentary value
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85Literary textJRL Gaster ar. 228
Primary languages
Arabic, Hebrew
Literary. Astronomical or calendrical work in an unusual mixture of Arabic (in Arabic script) and Hebrew.
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- arabic literary
- calendar
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2020
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31754
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86List or tableAIU VIII.E.13
12 pages of calendrical writing, with molad calculations and Islamic calendar conversions, for the first decade of the 19th century.
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- 19th c
- calendar
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30856
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87List or tableAIU VIII.E.11–12
16 pages of calendrical writing with molad calculations for years in the 19th century.
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- 19th c
- calendar
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88Legal documentT-S J3.47
Document date
Wednesday, 15 Av 1344 Seleucid (14 July 1033 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Verso: in addition to the continuation of the document on recto, there is a second document written inverted in relation to recto, a draft Qaraite …
verso, inverse
1. هذه شهادة ملاك ابو الحسن //داود\\ بن الفرج عمران اלוי אלכהן اليهودي بمهر مبلغه خمسة مائة دينار مائتين منها مقدم
2. وثلثة مائة مؤخر والخم…
1. This is a deed of the betrothal of Abūʾl Ḥasan Daʾūd ben al-Faraj ʿImrān al-Levi ha-Kohen, the Jew, with the mohar reaching five hundred dinars. Two…
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PGPID
36523
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89Literary textT-S Ar.29.56
Document date
1241 Seleucid (929–930 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Calendrical text. Dated: 1241 Sel. (929–30 CE). This copy: late 10th/11th c. Part of a longer calendrical work; the passage preserved on this fragment sets …
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90Literary textBodl. MS heb. d 36/13–16bis
Primary language
Hebrew
This is the famous epistle/sermon generally attributed to Daniel al-Qūmisī, in Jerusalem, to his "brethren" the Qaraites, urging them to come to Jerusalem (along with …
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19355
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91Paraliterary textT-S Ar.29.129
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
This manuscript, T-S Ar 29.129, contains the first part of Palestinian Calendar Manual 1. It provides as much information as is needed for an individual …
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34828
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92Paraliterary textT-S K2.107 + T-S NS J609
Document date
1361–62 Seleucid (1049–1051 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Qaraite calendar listing the dates of the new moon by observation, along with correspondences between the Qaraite, Rabbanite, and Islamic calendars. The upper fragment preserves …
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93Paraliterary textENA 4010.35 + ENA 4196.15
Document date
1357–59 Seleucid (1045–1048 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
A Qaraite (specifically Tustari) post festum calendar listing the dates of the new moons by observation for the years 1357–59 Seleucid, corresponding to 1045–48 CE. …
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PGPID
6803
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94Paraliterary textT-S Ar. 29.190 fol.9
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
This manuscript, T-S Ar. 29.190 fol. 9, contains the first part of Palestinian Calendar Manual 1, of which the other text witness is T-S Ar. …
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95List or tableT-S AS 210.13
Primary language
Hebrew
Calendar fragment[?] for the year 53__ which provides a possible range of 1539-1638 CE. Although the text from the first line is incomplete, the exact …
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96Paraliterary textT-S AS 145.290
Document date
Tishrei 1423 Seleucid (1111 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Recipe for a certain kind of wine ("al-nabīdh al-mudabbir"). On verso there are calendrical calculations mentioning Tishrei 1423 Seleucid, which is 1111 CE.
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34168
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97Paraliterary textENA NS 63.18
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Literary work containing Hebrew poetry and a section on the calendar including for the years 5923–78 AM, which corresponds to 1142–1218 CE. The hand is …
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32136
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98List or tableT-S NS 338.72
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Very neat. On verso there is a calendar in Hebrew script, listing years in the 12th century CE …
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99LetterJRL SERIES C 85
Document date
18 Elul 5580 Anno Mundi (28 August 1820 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: Letter from David b. Naʿim to Meir b. Naʿim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 18 Elul 5580, which is 1820 CE. On verso there is a …
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31935
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100List or tableENA NS 47.8
Document date
5424 Anno Mundi (2 October 1663–19 September 1664 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
Calendar for the year 5424 AM in Hebrew (1663/64 CE). The month of Sivan (May-June) includes reference to the onset of the yearly Nile floods …
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40112
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