Pambakian, Stephanie;
(2024)
Anania Širakac‘i's k‘nnikon Reconsidered.
Armeniaca
, 3
pp. 1-26.
10.30687/arm/2974-6051/2024/01/003.
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Abstract
Armenian medieval sources record that the seventh-century mathematician Anania Širakac‘i was commissioned with the creation of a perpetual calendar for the Armenians. These include Step‘anos Tarōnec‘i (eleventh century), who uses the term k‘nnikon in reference to Širakac‘i’s work, the exact meaning of which has been matter of debate. Scholars have suggested that it was a synonym of ‘chronicle’, and that it may have been used to indicate Širakac‘i’s perpetual calendar. The present article explores this idea further, comparing evidence in Armenian, Syriac and Georgian that had not been taken into account before in this context, showing that k‘nnikon was used to refer to an era based on an Easter cycle, a computus, and its use in Tarōnec‘i’s History may indicate Easter tables attributed to Anania Širakac‘i.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Anania Širakac‘i's k‘nnikon Reconsidered |
| Location: | Italy |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.30687/arm/2974-6051/2024/01/003 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.30687/arm/2974-6051/2024/01/003 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2024 Stephanie Pambakian. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
| Keywords: | calendar-making, seventh century, roman era, paschal cycle, armenian era, anania širakac‘i, easter cycle, time-reckoning, classical armenian, computus, k‘nnikon |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Hebrew and Jewish Studies |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10213558 |
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