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¹ The two forms have been clearly explained by F. K. Ginzel, *Handbuch der mathematischen und technischen Chronologie* I, 1906, p. 137; see also W. Kubitschek, *Grundriss der antiken Zeitrechnung* 1928 p. 70 (in Müller’s *Handbuch*), and especially W. Kolbe, *Beiträge zur syrischen und jüdischen Geschichte* 1926 pp. 1 sqq., who argued that the Babylonian form was the original one; I gather from *Rev.* E. G. XLVIII, 1935, p. 598 that E. Bikermann in his forthcoming *Études sur l’administration séleucide* will maintain that there was only one calendar, the official Macedonian one beginning in autumn, though Orientals might begin with 1 Nisan. Naturally the questions involved cannot be discussed here.