Chapter Two 



The Vineyard, the Vintage, and 

 the Making of Wine in the Ancient 



Orient 



The numerous wall-paintings in Egyptian tombs enable 

 us to reproduce a fairly detailed account of the Egyptian 



vineyard JJJ , ii; ^ht irrr , ^^ K ^ O [ <=> |^ Rec. trav. 



6, 7, Coptic ueaAoAi; ^'-'^-A (j'^'^'Pf; /^sdj, IpJ^; 



A/'^AAA 



; kiuizv )i irpiv, \ | ^^^^ ^^^^ A a^aan \\ '^ ^ 



smv n 17" r , X o % ^ aaa^aa [j <:z:^ o Herusatef Stele I35; dwy, 



AAAAA\ M r-i 



R^ctrav. 29. 157. ^^p^^^; *'"/'-'' J. "iM^-M' 



Jj ^^, i>ndJ see Mariette, Mastabas, pp. 181 and 1861. The 



vineyard was generally planted on an artificially raised plot, 

 whenever the district lacked hills or mountains. It was always 



i) Also called hsp. Q ^ I I I H , in Rosettana. See also Diim., Kal. 

 Inschr. 36, 47 I n ^TffFP ^ J}T<T '^^ ^ V^ \[j, "The vineyard is plan- 

 ted with vines". V.'vriants I'^XJ;, ff^^^' |^' ^ S ' 



etc. 



