Syrian
Hebrew
October
Tishri prior
Tishri, or Ethanim
November
Tishri posterior
Bull, or Marcheshvan
December
Canun prior
Chisleu
January
Canun posterior
Tebeth
February
Shubat
Shebat
March
Adar
Adar
April
Nisan
Nisan
May
Ajar
Zif, or Iyar
June
Chaziran
Sivan
July
Tamuz
Tammuz
August
Ab
Ab
September
A Note by the Translator.-The following list of the Syrian names of months, in use in the empire and during the era of the Seleucidae, several of which have been mentioned in these Documents, is taken from Caswinii Calendarium Syriacum, edited in Arabic and Latin by Volck, 1859. The later Hebrew names also are here added for comparison. It must, however, be noticed that "the years employed in the Syrian Calendar, were, at least after the incarnation, Julian years, composed of Roman months." (See L'Art de verifier les dates: Paris, 1818, tom. i. p. 45.) The correspondence with the Hebrew months, therefore, is not so dose as the names would indicate, since these commenced with the new moons, and an intercalary month, Veadar, following their twelfth month Adar, was added.
