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Lutz. Viticulture and Brewing. 



press'. In the tombofMera the work of these time, keepers is called 



.^ Kx g r^ fl, i. e., "to clap", "to produce a sound by 



clapping". The grape juice flowed through a bung on the 

 side of the press into smaller vats, in which the juice was 

 brought to fermentation 2. A second pressing was necessary 

 in order to extract the juice which still remained in the gra- 

 pes <*. We observe on the wall-paintings of Beni-Hasan ^ an 

 oblong linen slough, which is filled with wine-lees removed 

 from the winepress (see Illustration No. 8). This slough is 



No. 8. Winepress (after Wilkinson, The Ancient Egyptians). 



stretched out between a strong wooden frame -^ Men are 

 turning the cloth with sticks, which are placed through the 

 ends of the slough. The pressed wine flows into a large 



i) In the tomb of Ti, the daughter of one of the workmen is seen un- 

 wrapping herself and going up to the press. She is probably one of the 

 musicians or timekeepers. See also L. D. II, 96. 



2) The Egyptian word for "fermentation'' occurs 1". i, in d'Orb, 12, 10 



(1 j_ ^^ ^ 4 ^ Y \ 1?\ ^^v "^ n (^'"'^^"J "wine which was fer- 



menting", (1 "^ (^, j?<?.-. />w. 29, 159. 



3) See Klebs, Die Tiefenditnension in der Zeichnung des alien Reicks, in 

 Aeg. Z. 1914, pp. 24 28, and Montet, Rec. d. trav. XXXV, p. 120 ft". 



4) See Newberry, Beni-Hasan I, pi. 29, II, 4, 13. 



5) In A. St. G. Caulfeild, The Temple of the Kings of Abydos, Egypt. Res. 

 Account, igo2, pi. XX, there is an additional crosshead attached to the end 

 of the slough, which permits the cloth to be twisted tighter. The winepress 



is called 



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and Sethe, Urkunden der iS. Dyn., Leipzig, 1906 09, p. 687 



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ntnw; see Aeg. Z., 1866, p. 90, 



