The Vineyard, the Vintage, and the Making of Wine in the Ancient Orient, ji 



of the New House (and) at the disposition of Ulula, the second 

 (winemasterj. The l6th day of Sivan, in the eponymate of 

 Sha-Nabu-shu, the chief-officer etc." 



The pressman was called sirasu. He not only pressed 

 the wine and filled it into kegs or wine-skins, but also retai- 



No. 14. Climbing vine of a bas-relief in the palace of Sennacherib at Kuyunjik 

 (after Lenorraant, Fr., Histoire ancienne de I'Orient). 



led it. In CT XXII 38, 9 aNeo-Babylonian temple-official informs 

 his master, a priest of Sippar, that "the wine has been pressed 

 in my presence". The manufacturer of spiced wines, accord- 

 ing to Oriental custom, was at the same time a perfumer (see 

 Meissner, Bahylonien und Assyrien, p. 242). 



