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Lutz, Viticulture and Brewing. 



teaches: a third of barley, a third of safflower seed' and 

 a third of salt. Rabbi Papa took barley off (the recipe) and 



placed instead (of it) wheat They moisten it, roast it, 



srrind it and drink it from Passah unto the week-festival. It causes 

 diarrhea to whosoever is costive, and whosoever suffers of 



diarrhea, him it makes cos- 

 tive. It is a danger for the 

 sick and the pregnant wo- 

 man" l The "foaming" of the 

 beer was expressed by the 



" s^ o 



word s(f, ^ f 



The Egyptians also im- 

 ported beer. The greatest 

 beer export country seems 

 to have been along the Syrian 

 and Asia Minor coast, which 

 was known geographically as 



Qde, ^"^^. TheQode- 



probably not a Syrian pro- 

 duct, but came from mland, 

 either from Babylonia, or 

 more likelv, from the Hittite 

 country. Qode may be iden- 

 tical with the Biblical "coast 

 of the Kittians". i. e., the 

 coast-land which formerly 

 reached from Cilicia to Pe- 

 lusium; cf. Solin. 38, 1: Ciiiciam, qua de agitur, si, ut mine 

 est loqumuur, derogasse videbimur fidei vetustatis: si ter- 

 niinos sequimur, qvos habuit o/im, absonum est a con- 



No. 17. Coating the interior of beer 

 bottles with bitumen (after Aeg. Zeitschr. 

 Bd. 35). 



i) Carthamus tinclorius L., which grows in Egypt. 



2) ^rhT^ irii-iip xrbr "^-iru; srbn qoi*' a-^ X3r i-is'^n o^.n^r "^H 

 inb ijh::"! inb ^bpi inb iir '^u'^r! b'^'^siQi i-ir^n p'^sn xss 21 xn^ 



,. ._ ,. ,, ,|, ,. ,, , , . . , p'^sn xss 21 xnb'a 



n->'ir:b n'^b u'^rp'o ^s-ni n'^b'^si^ :3''T2pT xr."i:i:." n:;i xna*'"!': inb inB"^ 

 xro20 n-iai:.' nrxbi. 



3) Pap. d'Orb. 8, 6. 



4) Pap. Anast. 3 verso 2; 4, 12. 11. 



