1 2 Lutz, Viticulture and Brewing. 



A territory is several times mentioned in the texts, renowned 



. rv "II" i>-^ 



for its wines, i. e., ii i?nn, \V\k\ (. j , "the vine-bearing region 



of Amon". This is the name given in the lists of nomes 

 to a territory which belonged to the city of mvt-nt-Hapi, 



0^^ "the city of the Apis-bull", which is Ajri; of 



the Classical writers ^ This district was also known by the 

 name of IB-mnh. Dend. Mar. says of this district "the vine- 



yard oi Mnh has wine", JhH ^ i^^^iJn=r?=- ^^ '^^^^ si- 



tuated in the third nonios of Lower Egypt, called imn.t ^ 



that is, the Libyae nomos (Ptolemy IV, 5 i< 5). Pliny calls the 

 capital of this nome nobilis religione Aegypti locus, and accord- 

 ing to Strabo XVII, p. 799 it was loo stadia distant from 

 Paraetonium. The Libyan nomos was near the Lake Mareotis, 

 renowned for its excellent wines. The banks of a canal or of 

 a lake in this third nome of Lower Egypt, which bore the 



name n, , were planted with vines. An inscription 



narrates "(the locality of) An bears grapes (and) sB-imih bears 



J]:^&= <<3 IZSZl f t 1! 



_L-Si> 



I I I I I I. 



(l"^^=n=2. Th< 



1 U 



wme ^^._^ . 



Pyramid Texts mention the wine of Nkimw, [ ^ 



See also Diimichen, Die Oasen der Libyschen Wuste, T.at'el XIX (J 



0=9 



O 



i) The city of Apis of Ptolemy IV, 5, 5 seems to refer to the city 



called Hat-seha-Hor 



d 



Brugsch, Geo., p. 513), which is identical with Hat-uar-ifnn.t, J '^tt^^. The 



city of Apis to which Herodotus (II, 18) refers can hardly be the same place. 

 On the city of Apis see also above p. 10, note 3. 



2) Mar. Dend. I, 66, 16 R ^ ^^ A -^3- ^^ ^^ l=S=! 



J J ZLji ^^^=^ AAAAA^ ' ' \AAAAA O O O 



AAAAA^ ' * \AAAAA O O O 



unto thee "^An bearing grapes (and) SB-mnh bearing wine which will 



cause thy heads to wag". 



