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Description: | Decorated painted wall plaster from Amarna. Shows a bunch of grapes. This is from the North Riverside Palace at Amarna and shows lotus flowers and grapes. Published by Fran Weatherhead 2007 'Amarna Palace Paintings' p225 fig.120. Wine making in ancient Egypt to at least the early Dynastic. According to Plutarch it was the god Osiris who first taught the Egyptians to drink wine. The best wine came from the Delta region. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Rights holder: | University of Swansea, Egypt Centre | Subjects: | [none] | Temporal: | 1350 B.C.
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty | Source: | Egypt Centre | Identifier: | http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/index.asp?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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