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Viticulture and Brewing in the Ancient Orient
By Henry Frederick Lutz

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Publisher: Applewood Books, 2008.
Soft Cover, 180 pages, 6x9.
Item #1514

Here is a reprint edition of the 1922 book Viticulture and Brewing in the Ancient Orient. The work uses translations of Egyptian hieroglyphs, interpretations of tomb drawings and statuary, as well as Hebrew and Arabic texts to add to our knowledge of the making of alcoholic beverages in the ancient Near East and to elucidate the drinking customs of these cultures.

The author, Henry Frederick Lutz, was Professor of Egyptology and Assyriology and Associate Curator of the Anthropological Museum at the University of California, Berkeley. Best known for his scholarly works on the ancient Near East, Lutz's 1922 volume aimed at a wider audience with a more accessible account of the history of viticulture and brewing in the Ancient Near East from the beginning of historic time down to the wine-prohibition of Muhammed.

Collating materials that had been scattered among a variety of scholarly souces, Lutz sought to dispell the popular myth that ancient Orientals were drunkards and to present a world in which people were engaged in preparing the precious juice of the grape and in the brewing of beer in order to gladden their hearts at festivals and to drive away the dull cares of every-day life.

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