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| All calendars intercalated by adding an extra month ([iti] diri [mn], or [mn] min<sub>[3]</sub>), but this was not done in regular intervals, nor consistently across the empire. Though not demonstrated with certainty, very probably intercalation was employed, on average every three years, in an attempt to synchronize solar and lunar calendars.\\ | All calendars intercalated by adding an extra month ([iti] diri [mn], or [mn] min<sub>[3]</sub>), but this was not done in regular intervals, nor consistently across the empire. Though not demonstrated with certainty, very probably intercalation was employed, on average every three years, in an attempt to synchronize solar and lunar calendars.\\ |
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| Go [[http://cdli.ucla.edu/tools/ur3months/month.html|here]] for a tabular view of Ur III month names in Drehem, Girsu, Nippur, Ur, Umma and Irisagrig (click on the head of columns to sort the names according to the named local calendars). | Go [[http://cdli.ucla.edu/tools/ur3months/month.html|here for a tabular view of Ur III month names]] in Drehem, Girsu, Nippur, Ur, Umma and Irisagrig (click on the head of columns to sort the names according to the named local calendars). |
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| No generally accepted sub-divisions of the month into weeks are known from Ur III texts; the designations u<sub>4</sub>-sakar gu-la (“great crescent”), u<sub>4</sub>-sakar u<sub>4</sub> 1(u)-5(diš) (“crescent of day 15”), e<sub>2</sub>-u<sub>4</sub>-1(u)-5(diš) (“house of day 15”), and e<sub>2</sub>-u<sub>4</sub>-7(diš) (“house of day 7”), and variants of these qualifications, are suggestive of a simple division of the administrative 30-day month into two 15-day halves, and of each half into two “weeks” of 7-8 days.\\ | No generally accepted sub-divisions of the month into weeks are known from Ur III texts; the designations u<sub>4</sub>-sakar gu-la (“great crescent”), u<sub>4</sub>-sakar u<sub>4</sub> 1(u)-5(diš) (“crescent of day 15”), e<sub>2</sub>-u<sub>4</sub>-1(u)-5(diš) (“house of day 15”), and e<sub>2</sub>-u<sub>4</sub>-7(diš) (“house of day 7”), and variants of these qualifications, are suggestive of a simple division of the administrative 30-day month into two 15-day halves, and of each half into two “weeks” of 7-8 days.\\ |
