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Geog-r,, Tafel LI, No. I422 (] '^^ :^ J J .wwv. ^ ^ 

 wine-producing district was Tdui, c^ 5ot r^-^"^ and the city of 

 Nhani.ty V[> J _. The two are named together with the oases 



Khargeh and Dakhel and the cities of Nebesheh and Pelu- 

 sium^. The Egyptians received also wine from the oasis 

 called Bahriyeh (the "northern" oasis of the texts) 2. De Rouge, 



Edfou XXXIX. 4 \X _ Q\ (J <rr> , '^'^^^ would contain a 



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reference to viticulture at Heroo(n)polis, in case that r,^^ 



is but a somewhat unusual writing of the name of the city. 



We have seen above that Athenaeus knew of the wine ofCoptos. 

 A reference to the viticulture of that city is found in J. de 



Rouge, Le^.gcogr., p. 72 e^jfji]; ^ Mll^t,^,~ i- -- 

 "its riverbanks and its vines". That the vine was cultivated 

 about Coptos is seen particularly from the name of a territory 

 belonging to the fifth nome of Upper-Egypt (the Coptites of 



the Ancients), which was called ht hsp.t, /I 6 n "^he vine- 

 terrace". Vineyards were planted in Egypt proper as far south 

 as Elephantine. In the lower country of the first nomos of 

 Upper Egypt, Avhose capital was Elephantine, we meet with 

 the name of a district, which was called simply "the wine- 

 district", I] . The culture of vine at that district, as well 



as for all parts of Upper-Egypt and the oases, was compara- 

 tively late. It is not until the Ptolemaic times that viticulture 

 is actively engaged in about Elephantine. 



Vineyards were planted also in the vicinity of Heracleo- 

 polts. We have the testimony of an officer of the Saitic pe- 



1) "The grapes of Knm (Khargeh), the produce of Dsds (Dakhel), the 

 wine of the districts of Tbui^ the cities of Ntham.t, Im, and ^ajn", Diimichen, 

 Die Oasen der\Lib. Wiiste, pi. XVI. The grape, or raisin, of Dakhel appears to have 

 come on the market by the name "Oasis- grape"; see Br., WB., Vol. VII, p. 1129 



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2) See SteindorfF, Durch die Libysche Wuste zur Amonsoase, 1904, p. I44ff. 



