#2130 b.c.

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~ Tomb Model.

Place of origin: Egypt, Tomb of Khentkhety

Period: First Intermediate Period

Date: 2130-1980 BC.

Medium: Wood, pigment

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TELLING TIME IN ANCIENT KEMET:

A hallmark of almost every known culture is some system to track the passing of time. It is thought that, like most agricultural societies, the ancient Egyptians originally organized their calendar according to the cycles of the moon and the agricultural seasons (30.4.2). Most scholars agree that the Egyptian day began at dawn, before the rising of the sun, rather than sunrise. The daily cycle was divided into twenty-four hours: twelve hours of the day and twelve hours of the night, the latter apparently reckoned based on the movement of groups of stars (“decans”) across the night sky. Beginning in the New Kingdom (ca. 1500 B.C.), there is evidence that sundials, shadow clocks (12.181.307), and water clocks (17.194.2341) were used to measure the passing of the hours. There is no evidence that the Egyptians tracked minutes or seconds, although there are general terms for time segments shorter than an hour. The month was organized into three weeks of ten days each, with the start of the lunar month marked by the disappearance of the waning moon.

By at least the middle of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2450 B.C.), and quite possibly several centuries earlier, the Egyptians had developed a “civil” calendar composed of twelve months of thirty days each (360 days), divided into three seasons—Inundation (Akhet), Emergence (Peret), and Harvest (Shemu)—of four months each, with five epagomenal days (days outside the regular months) added at the end of the year. Official dates were expressed according to this system, as a specific day within a specific month of a season (e.g., Day 15, Month 3 of the Inundation Season). At least as early as the Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030–1650 B.C.), the months had alternative names (22.3.522) that seem to echo some sort of lunar reckoning.

It is likely that New Year’s Day (30.8.214) originally was associated with the heliacal rising of the brightest star in the night sky, Sopdet (also known by its Greek name of Sothis or Latin name of Sirius). In Egypt, this star reemerged after a seventy-day sojourn beneath the horizon at about the same time as the first signs of the annual Nile flood that brought the life-giving waters down from the highlands of Ethiopia. The correlation between Sopdet and the New Year is based in part on an ancient text (from ca. 2500 B.C.) that reads: “It is Sopdet, your daughter whom you love, in this her name as Year”; an inscription from the New Kingdom that mentions the rising of Isis-Sopdet on the morning of New Year’s Day (ca. 1250 B.C.); and a reference to Isis-Sopdet from the much later temple at Dendera (late first millennium B.C.), which says specifically that the years are “reckoned from her shining forth.”

Since a true astronomical year has 365.25+ days, the Egyptian civil calendar fell back by a quarter day or so each year. This meant that the rising of Sopdet/Sothis and the seasons of this calendar did not correspond to the actual agricultural seasons for much of Egyptian history. Scholars have attempted to use this disconnect, especially between the actual Sothic rise and New Year’s Day in the civil calendar, which correspond only once every 1,460 years, to calculate when the civil system was first established, but no agreement on this point has yet been reached.

Lunar-based month names, the importance of the heliacal rising of Sothis, the fact that some Egyptian festivals were scheduled according to the lunar cycle rather than tied to specific days in the civil calendar, and some double dates, have led scholars to posit an early luni-stellar calendar that would have operated alongside the civil calendar. This presumably would have been corrected regularly (perhaps by adding a thirteenth month or an extra epagomenal day every several years) to stay in step with the actual astronomical year (66.99.73).

Although the exact format changes over time, years were for the most part counted according to the reign of a specific ruler (10.176.42; 09.184.183). In Dynasty 1 (ca. 3100 B.C.), each civil year within a reign was identified by important events such as the founding of a temple or the installation of a cult statue, a practice that lasted well into the Old Kingdom (ca. 2649–2130 B.C.). It is also during Dynasty 1 that the germ of a system to number the years by reign appears, in a record of “the first occasion of the Djet (“eternity”)-festival,” probably referring to the first time this festival had been celebrated during the reign of King Djer. By late Dynasty 2 (ca. 2900 B.C.), regnal years were being labeled according to the apparently biennial census of the country’s mineral, animal, and/or agricultural assets. This soon seems to have become the key event by which years were counted: through to the end of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2130 B.C.), years can be named as either renpet zep N (Year of the Nth Counting) or renpet em-khat zep N (Year after the Nth Counting). Scholars long assumed that these counts were always biennial, and that minimum reign lengths for Old Kingdom monarchs could be estimated by doubling the highest attested census. However, recent scholarship has begun to question this construct and to suggest alternatives such as biennial counts that gradually became annual; counts carried out as needed to raise funds for government projects; or counts carried out in years during which a thirteenth month was added to the theoretical luni-solar calendar. It seems likely that annual counts became the rule by Dynasty 6 (ca. 2323–2150 B.C.), but overall, this question remains open.

At some point, most likely during the First Intermediate Period (ca. 2130–2030 B.C.), years began to be numbered according to each king’s tenure on the throne. During the Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030–1650 B.C.), these years were counted from one New Year’s Day to the next; the period of time between the new king’s coronation and Day 1 of Month 1 may have been counted as his Year 1, but alternatively may have been left to his predecessor. In the New Kingdom (ca. 1550–1070 B.C.), the regnal count began when the new king took the throne, and years were calculated from one anniversary of the coronation to the next (50.6) all according to the civil calendar. It is likely that the same system pertained during the Third Intermediate Period (ca. 1070–664 B.C.). During the Late Period (ca. 664–332 B.C.), the second option outlined as a possibility for the Middle Kingdom was in use: the king’s Year 1 was counted from coronation to New Year’s Day, and his Year 2 began with the new year, so that a Year 1 could last anywhere from a week to almost a year.

Also extremely important in the ancient Egyptian conception of the world was their larger attitude toward time. Inscriptions refer to two kinds of eternity. Linear time, or djet, associated with the funerary god Osiris (56.16.2), had a beginning and would have an end, albeit in the infinitely far future. Neheh, cyclical time, was tied to the passage of the sun through the sky during the day and the Netherworld during the night (O.C.81). Ideally, an Egyptian who had lived according to the precepts of maat by supporting and maintaining the proper order of a just cosmos, and who had been accorded a proper burial, would live forever (djet) and ever (neheh).

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Sten Hugo Hiller - 627184: Mountain Climbing Mecha Combat #1408

(By Sten Hugo Hiller - 627184) Mountain Climbing Mecha Combat #1408 Brought to you by ANN Highlighting the January 3367 Anzu Zoo Chrono This time the Gaming Authorities decided to promote the 15 ton suicidal "White Lightening" (Anzu) Mech, and they felt a Chrono was just the thing. Commanders fighting on the eight tallest tops were allowed to bring one other non-Anzu Mech along, -provided it massed no more than 20 tons. -On K9 they got an unlimited Chrono instead. Much have been said about the Anzu over the years. While it can get up to speeds no other Mechs can match, it suffers from bad Precision, low armor and Dodge, and no shielding whatsoever. Add in the tendency it have to blow itself up, and it is understandable that many Commanders prefer to stay well away from them. But it is nearly as cheap to buy and upgrade as the Red Ant, and those two models (as well as the Craftsmen Nephilax) are the only Mechs that can be upgraded using only Ferrite and Bioptics. So while Anzus are far from my prefered rides, there are four full dozens of them in the hangar just for the times when they are supposed to shine. We were yet again summoned to appear on K3, and since it was a Chrono where every point counted, the Anzus were called up. They  ran over to the arena immediately, and scant seconds later the top was ours. But not for long. Yusuke Paul Okabayashi from Myth and Legends Team Banzai arrived before the first scoreround and blew us off the top. Some probing showed that despite the Penner he used on point, there were a lot of Anzu`s behind it. How many were unclear as we never got past his fourth line. Other contestants trickled in, and while some of them had forgotten to check the rules of combat, at least a handfull had brought Anzu`s in numbers. Time after time we were dispatched from the slopes, a couple times  down to the lowest possible foothill. But agonizing battle after battle we managed to crawl back up to the slopes. And in the end, the early points we had gotten assured us a place in the second rank when the prizes were given out. Some footage we had gotten made it possible to figure out that this events highest scorers had been: Div 1 487+ (11 Commanders): Claude Poirier, Winters Coming (+9930) 2: Bernard Johnson 3: John T Mainer 4: Fabio Favaro 5: Shawn Wretham 6: Gary Muenzel 7: George Warren 8: Jay Fleharty 9: David Buchanan 10: Chad Leon Baker Div 2 -486 (25 Commanders): Sherriff Leary Wretham, W&D HQ (+8640) Div 3 -368 (13 Commanders): Yusuke Paul Okabayashi, M&L Team Banzai (+9100) Div 4 -238 (17 Commanders): Luc Lachance, Ronins (+16610) Div 5 -175 (14 Commanders): Tarandriel, Death`s Revenge (+4160) Div 6 -139 (16 Commanders): Neves7again, Black Star Bandits (+8190) Div 7  107 (17 Commanders): Albores Jam, M&L B.C. 13th A.D. (+1190) Div 8 -72 (16 Commanders): Cora Soco Hiller, TI.o.M.T. (+2570) Div 9 -40 (23 Commanders): Scottie Scott, Ronins 2 (+1800) On the eight highest tops, where mainly Anzu`s were to be used 6(1S)+7(1S)+8(G)+11(2S)+10(2S)+12(G,2S)+13(G,3S)+11(3S)= Three Golds, fourteen Silvers and sixty-one Bronzes were awarded to Commanders who clearly had non-regular formations when the event ended. Total Contestants: 152 Total medals claimed: 128 (of 135 possible) Compared to the recent Rainbow event, the participation was reduced by twenty-three Commanders. And the imbalance between the tops raised its ugly head again. This time a total of seven Bronzes from a trio of tops ended unclaimed and had to be returned for resmelting. However, the unclaimed Bronzes on Mount Olympus might well be laid at the feet of the Gaming Authorities as a result of the stringent  entry requirements they had for the highest top in this event. The highest score achieved in this event was on K2 where Sherriff Leary Wretham from Dragons & Warlocks Headquarters amassed 71 950 points. Biggest gap to the runner-up was on K4 where Luc Lachance from Ronins won by a margin of 16 610. And on K5, a latecomer got a Bronze without scoring even a single point. Five of the Golds were decided by magins in excess of 8000, but we also had two Golds where the difference were below 2000. One of them was decided by just 1190, -less than one scoreround on the top. But was the fight for the rest of the prizes closer? Best way to find out is to look at the differences between the medal tiers in this event: ..Silver to Bronze....Bronze to nothing Div 1 ......5180......…….......N/A Div 2 ......8230...…............1400 Div 3 ....12600...…..............N/A Div 4 ......8190...…..........12560 Div 5 ......9810...…..............N/A Div 6 ......6860...…............1320 Div 7 ......2380...…............1560 Div 8 ......3420...…............2660 Div 9 ......6720...…............1880 This time we had solid to impressive walls all over. One of the Bronzes and one of the Silvers had a five-digit difference, and none of the contested medals were won by less than 1300. This became another of the "none" events. None of the clans won more than one Gold, none of the Golds went to unaligned Commanders, and none of the last events winners managed to claim a follow-up Gold. Upcoming event: Krampus Here we are back to being allowed to use only a single model of Mechs again. This time it is the 70 ton Krampus who is to shine on the eight highest tops. On K9 there are no restrictions whatsoever. Event ends January 8 between 2130 and 2200 New York Time

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Sten Hugo Hiller - 627184: Mountain Climbing Mecha Combat #1403

](By Sten Hugo Hiller - 627184) Mountain Climbing Mecha Combat #1403 Brought to you by ANN Highlighting the December 3366 Limited Tonnage This time the Gaming Authorities wanted a level playing field, so on each top Commanders could only use up to a given total tonnage. And if they brought more, the Gaming Authorities would ruthlessly cull the formation until it was at, -or below the allowed limit. While I in general hope my fellow Commanders read and follow the limits given for these events, there was some hope that at least some of those we were to compete against would have missed those limits this time. Yes, it might be petty, but the level playing field only made sure we wouldn’t be out massed. As we were to fight on K3 where all but one opponent would out license us, and a half-dozen would have licenses 90+ higher we would surely be outgunned and probably outclassed. Unless they brought their main formations. In that case, the Gaming Authorities would disqualify Mech after Mech until the formation was at or below the tonnage limit. And they would do it from the Anchor Mech (rearmost, leftmost) and eliminate Mech after Mech, row after row from the bottom and up. In which case my two six-Mech lines would face seven one to two Mech lines, and our concentrated firepower would hopefully make short work of them without taking significant casualities. As we arrived at the arena, some in-depth scanning revealed that all but six of the opponents were severly overweight. After blowing the only one we out licensed (retiredarmyman from Death`s Revenge) back to the plains, the question was which of the rule-following opponents we were most likely to beat. The lowest licenced of them (29 above us) was Darren Jackson from Myth and Legends Team Banzai. It took some tries, but finally we got past him and onto the slopes. A few tries against the top trio (David Sifford, roward and Darryl Proctor), all from Northwind Dragons met with spectacular disasters. So the only sane option was to save the remaining attacks in case Jackson came back, or one of the others brough their 1200 formation online. This let the crew idle, so they started getting footage from all the tops Said footage did help me figure out that this events Nephilax`es went to the hangars of: Div 1 413+ (29 Commanders): Claude Poirier, Winters Coming (2s) 2: Gary Muenzel 3: Sal Vezzosi Jr 4: Sherriff Leary Wretham 5: Fabio Favaro 6: Makema Mathews 7: Jeff Haas 8: Bernard Johnson 9: Terry Cole 10: John T Mainer Div 2 -412 (11 Commanders): Felix Fogg, "R.V." (2m,38s) Div 3 -322 (16 Commanders): David Sifford, Northwind Dragons (20h,1m) Div 4 -211 (20 Commanders): KiloToneRecoil, B.o.A.D. (9m,43s) Div 5 -152 (17 Commanders): Grego, B.S.L.R. (17m,13s) Div 6 -123 (15 Commanders): Albores Jam, M&L B.C. 13th A.D. (9h,29m) Div 7 -94 (19 Commanders): Jack Travis, T.I.o.M.T. (57m,10s) Div 8 -67 (20 Commanders): Cora Soco Hiller, TI.o.M.T. (36m,35s) Div 9 -39 (27 Commanders): Cathy Goetz, Ronins 2 (8h,59m) 3+9(3S)+8+9(2S)+4+10(1S)+5+6(1S)+8(1S)= Eight Silvers and fifty-four Bronzes were awarded to Commanders who clearly had overweight formations. Total Contestants: 174 Total medals claimed: 131 (of 135 possible) The participation picked up this time. Compared to the Axe Bot event twenty-five additional Commanders showed up. But there was still some imbalance between the tops, and this time four Bronzes from K2 ended unclaimed and had to be returned for resmelting. The last half-hour saw four Golds in play, one of them not decided until just a couple seconds before the end. Three other Golds were held for more than two hours. This gave us some solid winners, and some contested fights. But was the struggle for the lesser prizes fiercer? Easy enough to find out if we count the number of medals held for more than 30 minutes in this event: .............Silvers......Bronzes Div 1 ....1 of 4.........3 of 10 Div 2 ....3 of 4.........4 of 6 Div 3 ....2 of 4.........7 of 10 Div 4 ....0 of 4.........5 of 10 Div 5 ....4 of 4.........7 of 10 Div 6 ....3 of 4.........7 of 10 Div 7 ....4 of 4.......10 of 10 Div 8 ....3 of 4.........8 of 10 Div 9 ....2 of 4.........9 of 10 We had one top (K7) without any successfull medal attacks at all. On the flip side, Mount Olympus and K4 had action fierce enough to redistribute most of the medals. The total Silver turnover was 14/36 (39%), and for the Bronzes it was 26/86 (30%). Both lower than for the Golds 4/9 (44%) Again the only double Gold winning clan was The Isle of Misfit Toys, and as in the Axe Bot event they won on K7 and K8. There were neither unaligned nor repeat winners this time. Upcoming event: Cruiserweight Here we get an event where only Mechs massing 70 tons or less are allowed to fight. "Wait a minute" some might say. "Didnt we have one of those back in November?" Well, yes, -but no. That was a Chrono, this is a sudden death event. Event ends January 3 between 2130 and 2200 New York Time