The Beer in the Ancient Orient. 



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te^nplatione rerum praesent'mui. Cilicia ante a usque Pelu- 

 sium Aegypti pertinebat, Lydis, Medis, Armeniis, Pamphiiia, 

 Cappadocia, sub hnperio Cilicwn constitutis: 7nox ab Assy r Us 

 subacta, in brevioreni woduni scrlpta. This beer played an 

 important role in Egypt, where it was often imitated ' 

 In a letter-, the writer, who was stationed in Qenqen-tane^ 

 writes to his superior that the food at that place was bad 

 and the best drink he could get was beer from Qode. Two 

 kinds were known in Egypt, the imported < and that which 

 was brewed in Egypt by foreign slaves ^. The genuine Qode 



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i.e., "Sometimes when bottles are opened, tilled with beer from Qode, then(?) 

 the people go forth to make a drinking-bout outside. There are 200 great 

 dogs and 300 jackals, 500 in all. They stay all day at the door of my house. 

 Each time that I go out while they sleep, whenever the n;ck of the bottles 

 is broken and when the jug is opened, I should be excluded, if I did not 

 have the little jackal-dog of N'hr-hw, the royal scribe, who dwells with me 

 in my house. It is he who saves me from them (sell, the dogs)". 

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