November (Roman month) favored the cult of Isis. The Romans did not number days of a month sequentially from the first day through the last. Instead, they counted back from the three fixed points of the month: the Nones (5th or 7th), the Ides (13th or 15th), and the Kalends (1st) of the following month. The Nones of November was the 5th, and the Ides the 13th. The last day of November was the "pridie Kalendas Decembrīs," "day before the Kalends of December". Roman counting was inclusive; November 9 was "ante diem V Idūs Novembrīs", "the 5th day before the Ides of November,"
September (Roman month) The scales represent Libra, the astrological sign entered late in the month. In the "Laus omnium mensium" ("Praise of All the Months"), a poem dating to the early 6th century, September "divides the hours equally for Libra". In an ancient Christian mosaic from Gerasa in the province of Arabia (present-day Jordan), September has the typical attributes of a vintager in Roman art—a young man wearing a tunic and chlamys carries a bunch of grapes in his right hand and has a basket on his shoulder—but is labeled as "Gorpiaios", the first month of the year in the local calendar, equivalent