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Lutz, Viticulture and Brewing. 



soaked for several days. The bread pieces were then pla- 

 ced mto a large fermentation-vat, which was large enough 

 to hold a man or woman, and the soaked pieces were then 

 trodden by the feet (see Illustration No. l6). A small statue' 



No. 15. Women soaking bread-loaves in large bowls; at right man staking 

 loaves for slight baking (after Davies, Rock Tombs of Dcir el-Gebrawi). 



shows a woman standing in the vat, holding her hands at the 

 top of the vat. In the painting at Deir el-Gebrawi we see 

 the process, which was most characteristic to the Egyptians 



No. 16. Man in centre pressing the soaked beer-loaves in large vat. Men at 



left and right filtering beer through woven baskets over large bowls (after 



Davies) Rock Tombs of Deir el-Gebrawi). 



for brewing, so that the hieroglyph "brewer" is taken from 

 the act, performed by a man. In the latter painting the artist 



1) Found in Neggada and preserved in the Berlin Museum; st& Aeg. Z., 

 1896, p. 161, illustrations 12 and 13. 



