The Wines of the Ancient Orient. IC 



riod, called Hor^. He states upon his stele that he had 

 planted two vineyards there, in order to provide wine for the 

 god Huneb. Judging from the vineyard scenes in the tomb 

 ofPaheri at al-Kab, viticulture was practised also in the vici- 

 nity of this ancient city. 



One of the most famous vineyards of Egypt was the 

 vineyard of Amon, situated in the Delta near the city of 



was situated "on the bank of the canal /Vrj", Y TTf" wvaaa 3^=1 

 (Pap. Anast. IV, 6, 11) It may possibly be identical with the 

 ancient city of Tanis (Egyptian ]! ^, ]) t'^^^^^X.', 



j?S of the Old Testament; Assyrian >^ ffA'^^^"^). In this 

 case Ptfy would be the modern dahf al-Mashrd. The vineyard 

 bore the name Ka-n-kemet"^. How far this vineyard reaches back 

 in the history of Egypt is not known. But we know that it existed 

 in the time of Ramses II. In the wine-cellars at the Ramesseum 

 have been found many sherds from broken wine-jars, which 

 bear the name of this vineyard 3. According to Pap. Anast. 

 3, 2, 6 it yielded sweet wine. In Pap. Harris, pi. 8, 1. 5 ff. 

 Ramses III. says "I made for it Ka-n-kemet, inundated like 

 the two lands, in the great lands of olive, bearing vines, 

 (being) surrounded by a wall around them by the iter". King 

 Ramses III. took great interest, it seems, in viticulture. He 

 paid particular attention to Ka-71-kemet, but he also extended 

 this interest to distant places. Thus we read in the Papyrus 

 Harris, pi. 7 lines lofif. "Vineyards I made for thee in the 

 Southern Oasis, and the Northern Oasis likewise without num- 

 ber; others (I planted) in the South with numerous lists. They 

 were multiplied in the Northern country by the hundred- 

 thousand. I furnished them with gardeners from the captives 



of the countries, provided with lakes , supplied with 



lotus flowers, and with pomegranate-wine and wine Hke draw- 



it See Pierret, Mon. du Louvre, I, p. 14. 



2) I. e., "The genius of the Black Land (= Egypt)"- 



3) See Aeg. Z., 1883, 3'^ff., and Spiegelberg, Ostraca, pis. 19 34. 



