# Specialists object that the Metonic dial already gives a lunar calendar, making a second, cruder one…

> Specialists object that the Metonic dial already gives a lunar calendar, making a second, cruder one redundant.

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# Specialists object that the Metonic dial already gives a lunar calendar, making a second, cruder one…

Specialists object that the Metonic dial already gives a lunar calendar, making a second, cruder one redundant.

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## What it bears on 1 answer

[The ring had 354 holes, a lunar year, so the Egyptian calendar ring sat over a lunar-year scale.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/antikythera-mechanism/answers/ANS0D3FQ78E1S2G/the-ring-had-354-holes-a-lunar-year-so-the-egyptian-calendar)

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AGAINST

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Specialists object that the Metonic dial already gives a lunar calendar, making a second, cruder one… [Evidence EVD0D3FQ87P7ZBN]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0D3FQ87P7ZBN
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