"But the true original of the calendar of Medînet-Habû does not even date from the time of Ramses II. It is known to every Egyptologist how little the time of the Ramessids produced what was truly original, how much just this time restricted itself to a reproduction of the traditions of previous generations. In the calendar of Medînet-Habû we have (p. 48) not a fixed year instituted under Ramses II., but the normal year of the old time, the vague year, as it was, to use Dschewhari's words quoted above (p. 852) in the first year of its institution, the year as it was before the Egyptians had made two unwelcome observations: First, that the year of 365 days did not correspond to the reality, but shifted by one day in four years with regard to the seasons; secondly--which, of course, took a much longer time--that the rising of Sirius ceased to coincide with the beginning of the Nile flood. "We are led to the same conclusion by a consideration of the festivals given in the calendar of Medînet-Habû. They are almost without exception the festivals which we have found in our previous investigation of the calendars of Esne and Edfû to be attached to the same days. We know already the Uaya festival of the 17th and 18th Thoth, the festival of Hermes of the 19th Thoth, the great feast of Amen beginning on the 19th Paophi, the Osiris festivals of the last decade of Choiak, and that of the coronation of Horuz on the 1st Tybi. "Festivals somehow differing from the ancient traditions and general usage are unknown in the calendar of Medînet-Habû, and it is just such festivals which have enabled us to trace fixed years in the calendars of Edfû and Esne.