Cattle count
In ancient Egypt, the cattle count was one of the two main means of evaluating the amount of taxes to be levied, the other one being the height of the annual inundation. A very important economic event, the cattle count was controlled by high officials, and was connected to several cultic feasts. In addition it served as a means of dating other events, with the entire year when it occurred being called "year of the Xth cattle count under the person of the king Y". The frequency of cattle counts varied through the history of ancient Egypt; in the Old Kingdom it was most likely biennial, i.e. occurring every two years, and became more frequent subsequently.
Process and purpose
To perform the cattle count, all chattel (including productive livestock such as
Importance
The cattle count is of great importance to
This does not exclude that the cattle count necessarily took place every second year before Pepi I.An example of conflicting evaluations for a reign duration via cattle count is the case of king
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 3406623107.
- ISSN 0081-7554.
- ISBN 0553384902.
- ^ a b Siegfried Schott: Altägyptische Festdaten (= Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur. Abhandlungen der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse. Bd. 10, 1950, ISSN 0002-2977). Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz u. a. 1950.
- ^ ISBN 3-491-96053-3, p. 100–102.