The Wines of the Ancient Orient. 1 1 



wines of Ancient Egypt, i. e., irp imJ, (I ^ ^W , "wine 



of 'Imet' 1, irp sjn, [ --, 'Mnl 'j^. (vocalized sajn\ the name 

 is mentioned in the Old Testament, Ezek. XXX, 15 ']"'0, Sept. 

 2aiv)"^ "wine of Pelusium", and?;-/ //2w(j ^ (ff^l ^^^ "wine 

 of the fishermen-village" 3. 



i) ^Imt [Yemet) = modern Nebesheh, about 8 miles to the S. E. of Tanis 

 and 9 miles to the N. W. of as-Salihiyeh. The wine of Nebesheh is men- 

 tioned ill Pyr. T 120a: W 149a; N457a; \ ]\ Beni Hasan I, pi. 17; 



^ 



Di n 



I LD II, 67, Saqqara, Dyn. 5. Regarding the city of 



Ptahhotep (see above; cf. Hawara, reprod. Petrie, Hist. I, fig. no I; Aby- 



dos I, 337; '"T^ Pieret II, 31 (26. Dyn.) and ^ cf. BHI, 23; for cLvmology 



O 



I ^^ I see Pyr. T 347 ff., cf. RIH (Dyn. 34, the title) ^ ^ 



(J Petrie, Nebesheh 11 31 '2, where situation of citv is given; 



2) Spiegelberg, in j4eg. Z., 49, p. 81 has shown that the city of Sajn, written 



1 V\ O 1 I in the demot. pap. Cairo 31 169, 3, 26 is identical with Pelu- 



sium. Spiegelberg ad I. gives also the different writings of the place as con- 



tained in the old winelists, i. e., (Cairo, 1693); ^ (L. D. II, 67); 



Ho 



'^^C^ (Saqqara, Mereruka B 5); ^ (Saqqara, Mereruka BC 3); 



Papyr. 92 Kageraui-Saqqara); 1^ (Diim. Result. XIII, 6 = Ptah-hotep, ed 



Davies, I, pi. 30). In the same article Spiegelberg also established the reading 

 of that name as sjn, (vocalized ^ajti). See p. 83 of the Aeg. Z. In Ashur- 



banipal, Cylinder A, Col. I, line 93 Sjn is written >^!IjT ^^^|~-T| /^ t*^ ^ 

 aluSui-nu, which makes the vocalization Sajn doubtful. The Assyrian text, 

 however, confirms Spiegelberg's identification of S]n with Pelusium, The vici- 

 nity of Pelusium appears to have been most noted also for its beers ; see below 

 p. 76. For wine of Sajn in tlie Pyramid Texts see T 122a; W 151a and 

 N 459 ;i- 



3) li ^U^ /(^w/,name of a locality of Lower Egypt (near Lake Mareotis?) 



