Wine and Beer in the Daily Life and Religion ot the Ancient Orientals, 



99 



determines also the concept of intoxication '. These ladies are 

 held b}- their female servants. For an Eg}'ptian banquet scene 



No. 21. Scene after the close of a banquet (after Wilkinson). 



Nos. 22 and 23. From a Theban tomb (after Wilkinson). 



l) So in Demotic ^ I / ;^>-,. The lotus-flower, in a more general 



way, serves as determinative of joy, f. i., in the vei'b "to rejoice, to be in an 



n * 



