Böckh concluded in 1863 that, according to Ptolemy, the Egyptian calendar day started before sunrise at dawn. Böckh's conclusions were accepted by Ginzel in 1906, but rejected by Sethe in 1920 and Luft in 1987. The rejections were based on confused and incomplete renderings of the data in the Almagest. Actually it follows without question from Ptolemy's data that the Egyptian calendar day began at dawn.
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