The Vineyard, tlic Vintage, and the Making of Wine in the Ancient Orient. -g 



The place for the produce of the vine is in it. One is merry 

 in it, and the heart of him, who goes forth from it, rejoices", 



(). II. The storing of wine (after Wilkinson, The Ancient Egyptians). 





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"This is the white(washed) room of the grapes, furnished 

 with the best ingredients for the pre- 

 paring of the ]:)roduce of the Horus-eye. 

 Different spices are there in their mul- 

 titude and the grape is in its closed 

 room at the going forth from the stalk", 



1 ^aoetri^Aw I 55:^4^^111 





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II 



The official vineyards of Egypt were ^o. 12. Wine-jar sup- 

 under the special care of an officer cal- ported by a stone-ring 



led 7id-m} 



. '^So 



, of the vineyard, or () of 



(after Wilkinson , The 

 Ancient Egyptians). 



Leipzig, 1899, 3, 12 didi , i. e., the place where the dtt/i-yesads are stored. 

 For an interesting graphic variant of 'wine-cellar" see RWB, I, p. 234: 





