The Egyptian names of months are not included in LSJ, but some were added to the Revised Supplement): Μεσορή, παῦνι (and variant spellings), Παχών; cf. Φαρμουθιακός.
The first of these name is explained simply as a month with some papyrological and Egyptian and Cyrenean epigraphic citations. The names in π- are explicitly months 'in N. Africa'. Τhe adjective is glossed as 'of the Egyptian month...'. Capitalisation is inconsistent.
The set is incomplete even though a hexameter poem from the Greek Anthology (9.383, cited by Rev.Supp. for Μεσορή, παῦνι and Παχών) tells what there is to know as far as the order goes:
Πρῶτος Θὼθ ἐδάη δρεπάνην ἐπὶ βότρυν ἐγείρειν. August-September
ἰχθυβόλοισι Φαωφὶ φέρει πανδήμιον ἄγρην. September-October
Πληιάδων φαίνουσαν Ἀθὺρ τεκμαίρεται ὥρην. October-November
Χοιὰκ σπειρομένων σταχύων δείκνυσι γενέθλην. November-December
Τυβὶ δὲ πορφύρεον βουληφόρον εἷμα τιταίνει. December-January
<σημαίνει πλωτῆρσι Μεχεὶρ πλόον ἀμφιπολεύειν.> January-February
Ἄρεος ὅπλα φέρειν Φαμενὼθ δείκνυσι μαχηταῖς. February-March
εἰαρινῶν Φαρμουθὶ ῥόδων πρωτάγγελός ἐστι, March-April
λήια δ’ αὐανθέντα Παχὼν δρεπάνῃσι φυλάσσει, April-May
εὐκάρπου δὲ Παϋνὶ προάγγελός ἐστιν ὀπώρης, May-June
καὶ σταφυλὴν κατέχων εὐάμπελός ἐστιν Ἐπηφί, June-July
καὶ Μεσορὶ Νείλοιο φέρει φυσίζοον ὕδωρ. July-August
9.384 is an elegy that does not name the Roman months, but has each of them speak for themselves about their distinguishing features. 9.580 is a similar hexameter piece (not '530' as in Paton's General Index s.v. Months..., Roman' on p. 451 of the Loeb edn, volume III).
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