84 Lutz, Viticulture and Brewing. 



countries", which also indicates that Qode was the beer country 

 Kar' s^oxiiv. 



The inscriptions refer to an officer called "inspector of 



the brewery", ^'^^^A^ ^^- 5 . . ^ and to the "royal chief 



beer-inspector", 1 S I^ '^ ^2. jhe "royal butler", 



I , was a high court-official. In the representation of 



Wiedemann, Hierat. Texte, Tafel 8 (Pap. Louvre 3308) the I'^T^ 



stands behind the king with a fan. 1 4^ selon DHI 40e; Mar 



Abyd. II, 50 (cf III, 1136) 1 ^ D fl^-" ? PlT^ 



T .vw^A^ ^ n UTZi n n I i I T 



(sic; 



i|^ (time of Merenptah); I'^Jf^''^^ (time of 





Merenptah) RIH 32; I W I , Var. 9-^0 I Rec. trav. 15, 37 

 (Amarna); fj^ ^^^z::^!^^^, Var. J J =0= etc., 

 Var. 9 J ^: /I etc., Stele of Marseille, Rec. trav. 13,119 (18. dyn.l 



^^^, ?^ y (.[ on a stele of the 12. dyn., ed, Wiedemann, 



Marseille. Next to butler the (5 ^ with bottles and jars, LDII, 

 129 (Hnmhotep). A servant, whose hair-dress seems to point to 



foreign origin, is called ^^\ zj | JU M I , "The cool one", 



LD III, 242. For a graphic variant of the name "butler" (jug 

 in bowl) from Bab-el-Moluk see i)^j-6-. II, pi. 85; similar Wilkinson, 

 I, 425. For a good picture of the butler see Champ, mon. 434. 

 Characteristic are the sleeves and the double garment in the 

 dress of the butler (see Mar. Ab. II, 49 and Champ, mon. 225). 

 For the best and largest representation of the butler of Me- 

 dinet Abu see Desc. de t^g. II, 8 (smaller II, 10). The upper- 

 garment is most likely a sleeve-apron, which the butler wore 

 in order to protect his chief-garment. It is of interest to note 

 in this connection that the pre-Islamic Arabic waiter also 



i) Stele C 45 in the Louvre. 



2) Stele of Ramessai'in-pr-r in Bulaq. 



