The beer in the Ancient Orient. 75 



beverages J?T^T 'wwva (probably identical with the beverage cal- 



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led TtTj'^ ^^ Q) and pnw, ^' '^. The former only is found 

 again by Hathorneferhotep in the same category, but there 

 it is again mentioned under the heading of //a'./, fi^ v\ci, and 

 of niiis.t, r] ^_:^, () rl^- Probably these latter two names refer 

 also to certain kinds of beer^. Nms.t may possibly be con- 



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nected with the name for cellar, ]imiv , 0^. Vlll ' ^^ ^^ 



designation of a beverage, which was kept in the cellar. In 

 the Egyptian bazaar-scene '^, dating back to the fifth dynasty, 

 the second row shows a woman offering for sale a beverage, 



which bears the name nnist, aaa^aa 0^. is=*, to a man, who 

 kneels before a parfume vase. The woman is saying to him _ 



"It is ;;/i/ that satisfies thee", w^w ( ^v '^=^^/>Os V *'^^~~^^;: 



The liquor is contained in two white bowls, which she 

 extends towards the prospective buyer. This market-scene 

 is of interest, since it shows that even at that early time 

 liquors were sold by women in public places. In Diimichen, 

 Kal. Itisch)'., 46, 1 appears a certain kind of beer , called 



"friend's-beer" or, "beer of the protector" fi mi i ' 



Beni Hasan I, pi. 17), kk.t hums, which was probably an old 

 beer, or lager-beer. Sweet beer is mentioned, f. i., in Med, 



i) Weil, Raymond, Des monuments et de rhistoire des II' ei III* dyn. 

 igypt., Paris, 1908, pp. 249 and 253. 



2) The fimiv is a cellar in which any kind of beverages were stored" 



The beer-cellar proper was called Q 0. [ourn. Asiat., 1867, p. 449. 



3) LD II, 96 and Maspero, Bidlio/heque Kgyplo/ogiqt/e, VIII, (1900) plate 

 facing p. 256. On the element 1 1 g 1 = beverage, see above, p. 79, n. i. 



4) Mistake for/:c', [} "v^. 



