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drafted into the army, probably to provide the soldiers with 

 beer rather than to serve under arms. It perhaps contains 

 a list of military conscripts, who were called to the colors ^ 

 In the second tent in the middle row of Illustration No. 26, 

 which pictures a fortress we see in one apartment two sitting 

 men, of whom one is drinking. The second compartment shows 

 a large vessel probably filled with beer. 



Babylonia possessed its wineshops and beerhouses 2, which 

 seems to have been located generally near the water of a river 

 or of a canal. See f. i., Ebeling, KAR, I, No. 16, Rev. 35, -^6, kar 



No. 34. Ashurnasirpal about to pour a wine libation over dead lion 

 (after '&a\\, Light from the East). 



gestin-na-ge ma ne-in-us\ ina karkarani elippu mn-mid-ma, "The 

 ship stopped at the 'wine- wharf". See also references below, p. 1 30, 

 n. 4. The Babylonians, however, considered the frequenting of a 

 public tavern by any respectable person as disgraceful. In a moral 

 texts it is said (line 15): '^f^i:^^^^,{belmnana] bit Hkari 

 la tirrub, i, e., "O lord, .thou shalt not enter the beer-house". 

 The same view prevailed, as is well known, amongst the 

 Greeks, for whom it was likewise improper to visit a kapeleion. 



i) Date- formula is mti ugnim(k>) ab-nun-nak> ^ i. e. , the 32 th year of 

 Hammurabi. 



2) For instance, Bu. 88-5-12, 58 lines 2 3, ^^bit sikhrV', see Meissner, 

 Beitrdge zum Altbabyl. Privatrecht, 



3) S. A. Smith, Misc. Texts. 



