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was an easy mark to their lures. The girls have placed 

 a wreath around his neck and have anointed him with oil. 

 Wild scenes and disorder may often have ended the drink- 

 ing bouts, as we read in a love-song: "The banquet is dis- 

 ordered by drunkenness" ^ The keepers of public taverns 

 stood very low in the estimation of the better class of their 

 fellow-citizens. We gain this information from a satirical 

 remark in which a taverner figures as criterion for the moral 

 depravity of a certain scribe Roye, the cattle-counter Kasa 

 and an official of the treasury called Amen-wah-se. It says ^r 

 "Well then, I describe(r) unto thee Nakht, him of the wine- 

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to drink heartily. In the tomb of Ahmes at el-Kab we read: 

 "drinking unto intoxication and celebrating a festive day" 

 swry r tht try /iriv 7ifr. A servant carries to Amenemheb^ 



and his wife a beverage ^ O 1 , "good intoxicating drink". 



Holidays were always especially days of great drinking bouts. 

 Thus we read 4; "The soldiers of his Majesty were drunk of 

 wine and anointed with oil each day as on a holiday in Egypt" 



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wine and beer must have been enormous ^ 

 to kings, warriors and priests by right of state in specific 

 quantities. Every warrior, for instance, if we can trust the 

 statement of Herodotus**, of the royal body-guard, which 

 consisted of 2000 men received four measures of wine. 



i) Turin love-songs, Maspero, Etiid. Egypt., I, 22 8. 



2) Pap. Anast. I, 9, 4 ff . See also Aeg. Z., 44, pp. 124 and 125. 



3) Sethe, UrkundenlW, pp.916 and 917. 



4) 3ethe, Urkunden IV, p. 688. 



5) Ramses III. says: "I gave every day wine and must, in order to 

 equip with abundance the Land of On" (Pap. Hanis I, 27, 8). 



6) Herod. II, 168. 



