5 2 Lutz, Viticulture and Brewing. 



and some other places ^ All the wines made from the ori- 

 ginal Byblos vine-stalk were called piBXivoc olvoc. Not every 

 PipXivoq oivoq, therefore, was a wine of Phoenicia. The 

 B6j3Xioc olvoq of Archestratos (in Athen. I, 29 b) refers cer- 

 tainly to the wine of the Phoenician city. The wine of Sarepta 

 is mentioned in Alexand. Trail. I, p. 335- 483; II, p. 217. 325, 

 and 407; and in Sid. Apoll., Carm. 17, 16. Pliny (XIV, 9 (7)) 

 mentions the wine of Berytos^, and the wine of Tripolis 

 (XIV, 9 (7)). Idrisi also mentions the vineyards of that city. 

 Regarding the viticulture of Horns he states that this city 

 possessed many vineyards at the time of the Muhammedan 

 possession, that is prior to the Crusades, but that they are 

 now nearly completely destroyed. The wine of the country 

 of Arvad is mentioned in an Egyptian inscription 3. For the 

 wine of Gaza see Sid. Apoll., Carm. 17, 15 and Isid. Orig. XX, 

 3, 7. Gaza was the center of the wine-trade for Egypt and 

 Syria. This city had built up a considerable industry in the 

 manufacture of wine-jars for the export trade*. The harbor 

 of Gaza, called Maioumas, contained a colony of wine dealers ^. 

 Mention is made of the wine of Gaza also in the Code of 

 Justinian, together with the other famous wines of that time^'. 

 This wine was known in the Occident under the names of 

 "Gazetum" and "Gazetinum" ''. The wine was considered a 

 luxury at the court of Guntram, king of Burgundia (Gregor. 

 Turon. 7, 29). Pap. Anast. 25, 2 ff. contains a reference to the 

 vineyards of Joppa. It reads: "When thou enterest Joppa 

 thou findest a garden green as the spring. Thou enterest 

 for the purpose of getting food, and thou findest there the 



BupXi(v)o5 oivo^ of Sicily was therefore also called TToWioi; (Ael. v. h. XII, 31). 

 Hippys (in Athen. I, 31 b) states that an Argeian TToXXiq, king of Syracuse, 

 had brought the d|UTreXoq ^i^Xia to Syracuse, but from Italy. 



1) The famous vine-plant of Bybios was moreover cultivated in Thrace. 

 Armenides (in Athen. I, 31 a) knew of a Thracian Bi^Xia, also called Antisare 

 and Oisyme. Achilles Tatios (II. 2) names this wine besides the maroneic, 

 which is a Thracian wine. 



2) See also Imhoof Blumer, op. i, p. 62. Raisins of excellent quality 

 were exported from Berytus (Plin. XVI, 18). 



3j See Breast, Egypt, II, p. 461. 4) Tot. Orb. Descr., c. 29. 



5) Marc. Diac, c. V. 6) Corp. de laud. Just, min., Ill, 88 ff. 

 7) Stark, p, 562. 



