id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
grbs-7151	Bagnall, Roger S.; Worp, K. A.	Chronological Reckoning in Byzantine Egypt	1979	17	.pdf	application/pdf	7166	328	65	We find in these texts six distinct systems of referring to years: regnal years, which change as emperors do; epigraphai and indictions, both in cycles of fixed length which thus cause the same year number to recur at set intervals; consulates, announced annually; and the eras of Diocletian and Oxyrhynchos, which owe their existence to regnal counts prolonged beyond the death of the emperors in question and which constitute permanent continuous counts. The epigraphai bore on the crop just harvested at this time; that is, epigraphe 1 fell on the crop of regnal year 3-2 (286/7), har­ vested in late spring 287.	cache/grbs-7151.pdf	txt/grbs-7151.txt