The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . rable difficulty, but skins may becomeold, rent and bound up; they also prove, intime, hard and inelastic, and would in such acondition be very unfit to hold new wine, probablyin a state of active fermentation. Even new skinsmight be unable to resist the internal pressurecaused by fermentation. (5) As the drinking of wine is illegal amongthe Moslems, who are now in possession of West-ern
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . rable difficulty, but skins may becomeold, rent and bound up; they also prove, intime, hard and inelastic, and would in such acondition be very unfit to hold new wine, probablyin a state of active fermentation. Even new skinsmight be unable to resist the internal pressurecaused by fermentation. (5) As the drinking of wine is illegal amongthe Moslems, who are now in possession of West-ern Asia, little is seen of the ancient use of skinbottles for wine, unless among the Christians ofGeorgia, Armenia and Lebanon, where they arestill thus employed. In Georgia the wine isstowed in large ox-skins, and is moved or kept atband for use in smaller skins of goats or skins are still most extensively used through-out Western Asia for water; BOTTLE 301 BOUGH (6) It is an error to represent bottles as beingmade exclusively of dressed or undressed skinsamong the ancient Hebrews (Jones, Biblical Cy-clopaaia, in voc.). Among the Egyptians orna-mental vases were of hard stone, alabaster, glass,. Water Carriers with Bottles. ivory, bone, porcelain, bronze, silver or gold, andalso, for the use of the people generally, of glazedpottery or common earthenware. As early asThothmes III, assumed to be the Pharaoh of theExodus (B. C. 1490), vases are known to haveexisted of a shape so elegant and of workmanshipso superior, as to show that the art was not, eventhen, in its infancy. Many of the bronze vases found at Thebes andin other parts of Egypt are of a quality whichcannot fail to excite admiration, and which provesthe skill possessed by the Egyptians in the art ofworking and compounding metals. Their shapesare most various—some neat, some plain, somegrotesque; some in form not unlike our cream-jugs, others are devoid of taste as the wine bot-
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