The first Phoenician wine press and the technology of plaster

[Duncan Head]

Summary at http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/59580

Original study at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/phoenician-lime-for-phoenician-wine-iron-age-plaster-from-a-wine-press-at-tell-elburak-lebanon/2C1D1FFA859C0D9A32E79447D35F9FF6/core-reader

[Imperial Dave]

a pet subject - busman's holiday of a sort 

[Duncan Head]

Wine, or plaster?

[Imperial Dave]

wine!

used to make it in my job although not I hasten to add by treading on grapes in a vat with a few mates.....

[Erpingham]

wine!

used to make it in my job although not I hasten to add by treading on grapes in a vat with a few mates.....

Disappointing.  I'd built up this image of you as a secret plasterer.

[Imperial Dave]

wine!

used to make it in my job although not I hasten to add by treading on grapes in a vat with a few mates.....

Disappointing.  I'd built up this image of you as a secret plasterer.

well, not quite as good but you should have seen me making ginger wine.......like something out of a horror movie...