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I'm confused. Rome didn't have a 7 day week until Constantine introduced it in 321 CE Rome used an 8 day cycle called "nundinal cycle". (And yes the name of t
by ithkuil 2y ago
I'm confused. Rome didn't have a 7 day week until Constantine introduced it in 321 CE
Rome used an 8 day cycle called "nundinal cycle". (And yes the name of the 8 day cycle contains the root of the number 9, novem, because Romans of course also invented off-by-one errors)
Days were named with letters from A to H.
What does it mean that the Panis Quadratus was baked on a Wednesday?
That sparked my curiosity and I tried to find more accounts of this alleged ritual of baking specific kinds of breads on specific days of the week but I couldn't find much.
It seems that somebody wrote a piece about panem quadratus on Wednesday and a few other types of breads and that's got copy-pasted around including some touristic website from Naples.
I call bullshit, but I may be wrong. Does anybody know more about it?