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64 3 Previous Attempts of Astronomical Dating of Egyptian Zodiacs
Figure 3.14: Fragment of Brugsch’s zodiac with the constellation
symbols and names of planets. (Taken from [14])
pio, is black, what indicates that it could be seen all the night
(i.e. it culminated at the midnight). A crescent is shown on
the head of Virgo, which corresponds exactly to the appearance
of the Moon when the Sun is in Scorpio 31 .”
In the above passage it is indicated that the Sun is shown
on the zodiac in Scorpio and the Moon in Virgo.
“Demotic script was first deciphered by J.D. Akerblad in
1802, twenty years before Jean-François Champollion decoded
the hieroglyphic writing. Demotic is believed to be not as old
as hieroglyphs ... Brugsch dated this coffin to the time of the
Roman reign in Egypt, i.e. not later than the first century
A.D. It is understandable how I was excited to work on the
dating of such a remarkable artifact .... but I couldn’t believe
my eyes when I’ve obtained a shocking result indicating the
unique solution: November 17, 1682 A.D. 32 ”
Further in his book, N.A. Morozov admits that there was
another perfect solution, which was even better than the first
one, because the order of Mercury and the Sun, contrary to
31 See [4], Vol. 6, pp. 695-696.
32 See [4], Vol. 6, pp. 697-698, 727.
the first solution, was exactly the same as on the zodiac. However,
the location of Jupiter and Saturn was in the tail of Leo,
instead of the Leo’s head. This solution was November 18,
1861, but Morozov rejected it as impossible because it was
later than the date of the zodiac’s discovery.
We’ve verified all Morozov’s calculations and confirmed
their accuracy. There are indeed only two solutions for this
Demotic horoscope and they are exactly as it was described
by Morozov. Let us point out that the planetary positions inside
a particular constellation were never accurately indicated
on the Egyptian zodiacs, even in such cases when the arrangment
of a zodiac allowed it in principle (we will illustrate it
later in this book). So, there is no foundation to assume that
Jupiter and Saturn met exactly at the Leo’s head, but we
should be satisfied with any close position of these two planets
inside the Leo constellation. On the other hand, the order
of the planets on Egyptian zodiacs is usually correct. From
this point of view the first solution is a little bit worst than
the second one. At first, because of the reasons pointed out
by Morozov, we’d considered the solution 1861 as impossible.
However, later, we have discovered on Brugsch’s zodiacs two
more complete horoscopes, which contrary to the Demotic
horoscope, were the integral parts of the original picture. It
is quite obvious that the Demotic horoscope wasn’t a part of
the original design and it was appended to the zodiac much
later — this fact was already remarked by the previous investigators,
including N.A. Morozov 33 .
One of these newly found horoscopes is located on the left
side of the picture and the another one on the right. We show
these horoscopes on Figure 3.15. We will call the horoscope
on the right the horoscope in Boats because all its planetary
symbols are shown standing in boats. On the other hand, the
left-hand side horoscope has all its planetary symbols represented
by figures without walking sticks, probably in order to
avoid confusion with the horoscope in Boats. We will call it
the horoscope without Walking Sticks.
The detailed analysis of Brugsch’s zodiac will be done in
Chapter 8 (see section 8.2). The horoscopes in Boats and
without walking sticks have very few solutions in the historical
time interval, but there is a pair of reasonable close solutions,
which are the years 1841 and 1853. Probably, these two dates
indicate the birth and the death of a young person for which
this coffin was made. But this would indicate that the date
of the Demotic horoscope is also from the nineteenth century
(1861), so the second Morozov solution would be right. Maybe
our computations can be considered as an evidence that H.
Brugsch was fooled by somebody who supplied him as a joke
with this not so old coffin and annotated the zodiac using
Demotic script to indicate this strange date 1861. At that
time it wasn’t a problem to create horoscopes for future dates,
which could be simply looked up in the astronomy books.
The story of Brugsch’s zodiac definitely deserves some more
investigation.
33 See [4], Vol. 6, p.797.