Roman farmer's calendar - photo

[Altair]

Roman farmer's calendar showing the number of days in each month, phases of the moon, duration of days and nights, zodiac signs, and festivals.




Previously:

Handheld rotating 50-year calendar - video and photo
1500s German gun/knife/calendar - photos
Wooden celestial mechanical calendar and orrery - video and photo
Ancient Roman city aerial view - photos
Ancient Roman aqueduct - photo

[Moby Duck]

Is this a Julian or Gregorian calendar?

[mklotz]

Is this a Julian or Gregorian calendar?

The Gregorian calendar wasn't introduced until 1582. The fact that June is shown as having 30 days rather than the 29 of the old Roman calendar indicates that it is using the revised form, i.e. Julian form, that Caesar decreed in 45 BC.

[Moby Duck]

The Gregorian calendar wasn't introduced until 1582. The fact that June is shown as having 30 days rather than the 29 of the old Roman calendar indicates that it is using the revised form, i.e. Julian form, that Caesar decreed in 45 BC.

The thanks option is missing on this thread so I will have to write my thanks. Thanks Marv, you are a mine of knowledge.

[mklotz]

The thanks option is missing on this thread so I will have to write my thanks. Thanks Marv, you are a mine of knowledge.

Thanks for the kind words, Moby. My mind is cluttered with a lot of useless information. I can bring cocktail party small talk to dead silence without even trying.

[JoeVanGeaux]

This is an early model of what many of us now have stuck onto our refrigerators with magnets... except this one is way cooler, IMO.