c5 I>utz, Viticulture and Brewing. 



which means "to press, to turn, to wring, to 



turn the hnen slough'. Rosellini II, 66 shows two women 

 turning a slough, filled with winelees. Kec. trav. 21, p. 6 pictures 

 a wine-press with two sloughs instead of the customary one. In 

 the Thebaid the footpress is only represented and thus, we may 

 conjecture, was only used there, Avithout the second process of 

 pressing the winelees. The wallpainting of Ptah-hotep in Beni- 

 Hasan ^ representing the pressing of the lees is unique. The 

 sticks cross each other, and the slough is attached to the lower 

 extremity. These modifications are due to the artist's desire 

 to show the completion of the work of pressing. The slough 

 is completely curled up. By pushing the linen slough towards 

 the end, the workers gained greater force. This could of 

 course not be done as long as the sack was still filled with 

 winelees, since it would have shifted all the pressure and the 

 greatest amount of work and weight on the worker nearest 

 to the slough. L. D., II, 53 shows further the heating of the grape- 

 juice, probably in order to hasten the .process of fermentation. 

 Next, the wine was filtered. Two men stretch a large piece 

 of cloth over a kettle while a third pours the wine into the cfoth. 

 The wine finally is poured into large variegated stone- and 

 earthen jars (see Illustration No. 10). The short, but wide-necked 

 jars were then closed with covers, stone plates, globular or 

 differently shaped stoppers and sealed'-. The wine which was 

 destined for funerary purposes, however, was put into very 

 small vases ^ which were closed in the manner of perfume 

 vases ^. The Egyptians, before pouring the wine into the jars, 

 generally smeared the bottoms with resin or bitumen. This 



is also used for "braiding the liair", cf. Chab. voy. 119. The original meaning 

 seems to have been "to wrap into a bundle", 

 i) Newberry, Bent-Hasan, I, pJ. 36. 



2) On the east wall of the mastaba of Akhethotep at Saqqareh, men 

 are emptying wine into large open-necked jars. The two storage jars, which 

 are long-necked, stand near b4. 



3) See Petrie, Medum, pi. 1 1 . 



4) L. D., II, 96 with the legend: ^ Q ^ [ 



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