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The Western calendar tradition is dominated by the Roman antecedents in many respects. This holds true for the names of the months and their length, for the mechanisms of intercalation and last but not least its graphic representation. The very word ‘calendar’ has a Roman ancestry, calendarium denoted the notebook recording loans and settlement dates. Like most circum-Mediterranean cultures, the Roman calendar that we can trace back to the fifth, maybe sixth century BCE, was a lunisolar ca...