104 Lutz, Viticulture and Brewing. 



meat in such and such a bad place 1", and he is ah^eady 



there with the harp. He has no (it is) the 



throat (?) of the man, who destroys his own self. As soon 

 as he has found wine (andj meat before him he goes there 

 without being invited. He converses with the guests: 

 "I can not sing, I am hungry. I can not bring the harp 

 in order to chant (it), without having drunk, (and) eaten 



from the jar And he uses wine for two, 



meat for three, food for five together. The harp presses 

 (against) his heart; it is like a heavy load. He causes 

 them to call to him three times for a song. He is ac- 

 customed to carr)^ the harp in order to inebriate himself, 

 in order to exhibit every kind of vice in him. He plays 



(on) the harp in entire discord "Serve food". 



He turns it to his side, i le responds to recite the . . . 



1 le is accustomed to e.xaggerate his art. (For) 



liis mouth is his strength, (and) his words do not bear 

 witness to his art. It differs his voice, it differs the harp; 

 his bad behavior, his art speak against him, against the 

 order to sing. "Shame with tin- splendor!" They are 



unaccustomed until the pupil of his 



eye. They will not receive him at another place because 

 of his many vices. Once satiated he leaves the harp, lie 

 flees, he departs. He causes the hour to jiass to show(.^) 

 his face." 



Krall was the first scholar who recognized ' that this text 

 belongs to the same class of literature, which depicts in 

 a satirico-humorous way the life and doings of men of different 

 professions and crafts, as contained in Pap. Anastasi III, 3, 9 

 4, 4; V, 8, 19, 1; Anast. Ill, 5, 56, 2; IV, 9, 4 10, 1; Anast. 

 V, 15, 617, 3 and Pap. Sallier I, 6, 1 9; Pap. Sallier II, 4, 6S. 

 In a compan}^ of high-living guests the harp-player fell an 

 easy prey to a debauched life. The text was probablj- written 

 as a warning to those who desired to choose the tempting 

 life of a musician and minstrel as their life's work. The harp- 

 player is no uneducated person, "he has doctrine", but is of 

 a mind that seeks, since his earl\' childhood, his highest 



l) See AVf. i/f lra7<. V, pp. 7678. 



