Peret

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1. EgyptologyOne of the three seasons of Ancient Egypt, coming after Akhet and before Shemu; Emergence.

   Favorite dates were the first month of the akhet season and the third month of the peret season.

   2013, Koenraad Donker van Heel, Djekhy & Son: Doing Business in Ancient Egypt

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   [Year 9, Xandikos day 4], which is equivalent to the Egyptian month, second month of Peret, day 18, of the King ‘The Youth who has appeared as King in the place of his Father’, the Lord of the Uraei ‘Whose might is great, who has established Egypt, causing it to prosper, whose heart is beneficial before the gods’…

   1999, “The Demotic Text of the Memphis Decree on the Rosetta Stone”, in R. S. Simpson, transl., Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment, page 164

   In other words, the crew did not show up for work from I peret 19 to 22, only to resume work on I peret 23.

   2003, Koen Donker Van Heel, B. J. J Häring, Writing in a Workmen's Village: Scribal Practice in Ramesside Deir El-Medina

   Fortunately, the absence record is picked up in the more complete Ostracon Cairo CG 25521, which records absences from IV Akhet 15 through to the end of I Peret.

   2016, Mark Collier, “The Sting of the Scorpion”, in Mummies, Magic and Medicine in Ancient Egypt: Multidisciplinary Essays for Rosalie David