Sothis
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This period, measured thus by the heliacal rising of Sothis, is spoken of as the Sothic cycle.
From A History of Science — Volume 1 by Edward Huntington Williams
This Sothis period commenced either in the year 5702 B.C., or, according to the arrangement of Lepsius, with the year 4242 B.C.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker
The more precise fixing of new year's day was accomplished through observation of the time of the so-called heliacal rising of the dog-star, Sirius, which bore the Egyptian name Sothis.
From A History of Science — Volume 1 by Edward Huntington Williams
Then followed, beginning like the rest with the beginning of a Sothis period, the rule of human kings.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker
Brugsch points out that, in certain inscriptions at Denderah translated by Mariette, “the Sothis star of Hathor-Isis is designated as ‘the right eye of Ra’ while the sun is termed the left eye.”
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall
