8 Lutz, Viticulture and Brewing. 



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\^ Q ^2, "furnished with all good things and with the 



produce of the Horus-eye (i. e., wine)". Diimichen, Hist. Inschr., 



II, 53, 6, 20 ]M, ^ Ml ^ *^^ '^ ^^ '^^ "'^^^ vineyard of 

 Sohet has (the produce of) the green Horus-eye". This pas- 

 sage and that of Diini., Hist. Inschr., II, 53, b, 18 MA <n=> -*=' 



^^ ^ ^ / ( 50; "The fertile field contains gra- 



pes', the produce of the 'Horus-eye' is wine', makes it cer- 

 tain that the "green Horus-eye" designates a wine and not 

 another intoxicating drink 2. The 'green Horus-eye' was a pro- 



ductof J^, Ombos\.\\2: J^^^^^O and of Hat- 



uV-'imnt, Diimichen, Temp. Inschr. I, 73,4 <j> ^ y T\ \\ ^^ 

 According to Dum. Kal. Inschr. Tafei 109 it causes good 



^""^''' C>c=n=i^^^'^^?^ I =^ "'^^^ ^ " (goddess) 

 became good-humored on account of the 'green Horus-eye'-wine". 

 On the stele of Khabiousokari, in the Museum of Cairo ', 

 a certain wine is called k^y , /^ ^^ (] The same stele men- 

 tions also a wine named irp-iui , [ -. X ). Another brand 



of wine is met with under the designation sdiv-ib, 1 c] "O" ] Q(\, 

 which probably means either "satisfying beverage", or, "thirst- 



grew there ia such abundance and such superior quality, that they were dried 

 and shipped all over Egypt (Jaubert, Geo. d'Idrisi, p. 128). 



i) See also Mar. Dend. I, 17, 21: "He brings to thee the fertile field, 

 bearing grapes (and) the Horus-eye wine pure things, which thou drinVest 

 (and) which gladden thy heart and cause joy to overflow in thee". Wm == 

 grapes, not coriander (Loret, V. in R, T. XV, 105 fF.). Maspero, Et. Eg. I, 233: 



"My clusters of grapes (^'^ 'VX 3^^ | beget thy drunkenness". 



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2) The "white Horus-eye", ^ ^ T ^^ <^ is milk. The "green Horus- 



eye" is probably a spiced wine, judging from an inscription in Esna. 



3) See Weil, Raymond, Des monuments et de Vhistoire des IF et I IF 

 dynasties egyptiennes, Paris, 1908, p. 251. 



