The Beer in the Ancient Orient. 



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kai ^yi. -is v_-^is ^1 j,y ^J^ (3 5-^~ai. Another kind of beer was 

 called mbr, mizar , jj^ which the Kamus explains as ->-^ 

 ^c>fcioJ\_5 s^JJl "wine of durra and barle}-". De Sacy {Clirest. 

 Arab. I, p. 150, 151) identified inizr with the Greek Koopiii, 

 a stronger kind of beer than the 'Lpxioc^. This identification, 

 however, is doubtful. According to Ibn Baitar II, 513 it was 

 prepared of wheat, durra and barley and was the national 

 drink of Eg)'pt long after it had embraced Islam. The 7nizr- 

 beer was subject to a government tax (Makrizy, Chitat I. I05). 

 Bokhary mentions the use of this beer also in South-Arabia. 



Dadiyy l,v3^^^). 01* dadiyy K^'^'^^) was the name of an intoxi- 

 cating beverage, which was probabh" prepared from a seed 

 of the same name. This seed tasted bitter, and resembled 

 the barley, being, however, somewhat thinner and longer (see 

 Reinaud, Relations des voyages faits par les Arabes et les Per- 

 sans, Paris 1845, 55). According to Gawalik)- 108 the Abys- 

 sinian beer, called ghobaira, or sokorkah \sokorka ), which 

 was introduced into Arabia at a very early time, was espe- 

 ciall)' prohibited to be drunk, since Mohammed had placed 

 it in the same class as wine. The sawiq, ((3^.v^), a parti- 

 cularly favored drink, seems to have been quite harmless. It 

 was a barle\'-water,. which was imbibed from the vessel by 

 means of straws, and was generall}' drunk b}- sick persons. 



