Richard Anthony Parker

Richard Anthony Parker is a North-American Egyptologist (born with Chicago the December 10th 1905, deceased the June 3rd 1993).

He worked much on the calendars of the ancient Egypt. According to him, two calendars would have coexisted:

the 365 day old calendar and which he baptizes civil calendar. It would have been intended for the only administrative needs and would have been introduced with before our era.

a lunar calendar, quite former, whose existence would have continued even during the presence of the civil calendar. Its vocation would have been so agricultural nun but.

Publications

The Calendars off Old Egypt, Studies in Eastern Ancient Civilization , University off Chicago Near, 1950;
Sothic Dates and Calendar Adjustment ;
The Problem off the Month-Names: At Reply , 1957;
Lunar Dates off Thutmose III and Ramesses II , J. Near Eastern Stud., 1957;
has Vienna Demotic Papyrus one Eclipses and Lunar-Omina , Brown University Press, 1959;
With O. Neugebauer, Egyptian astronomical texts , Lund Humphries, London, 1960.
With J. Cerny, has Saite oracle papyrus from Thebes , in the Brooklyn museum, papyrus Brooklyn 47.218.3, Brown university near, Providence, 1962;
Two Demotic Astronomical Papyri in the Carlsberg Collection , 1962;
Egyptian Astronomical Texts, III. Decans, Planets, Constellations and Zodiacs, Text I , Brown University Near, 1969;
The Calendars and Chronology, the Legacy off Egypt. 2 , Clarendon, Oxford, 1971;
Demotic Mathematical Papyri , Brown University Near, 1972;
Ancient Egyptian Astronomy, the Place off Astronomy in the Ancient World , Oxford University Near, 1974;
With Jean Leclant and Jean Claude Goyon, The Building off Taharqa by the Sacred Lake off Karnak , Brown University Near, 1979.

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