EGYWINE investigates the wine jars typology and production to know how the jars were made to contain wine and the wine inscriptions to know the ancient winemaking procedures.
For this, two main objectives need to be achieved:
1) Study the main concentration of the Egyptian wine jars.
This work is being developed to document the wine jars and wine inscriptions in the following museum:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
2) Create the Ancient Egyptian wine jars database
A datasheet with two information levels related to provenance and jars is being developed: Archaeological site name and location, current location (Egypt or another country) and map, site type (necropolis, habitat, temple), chronology and total of wine jars identified; Wine-jar typology, chronology, inscription, geographical provenance in Egypt, current location (site or museum), technical description, photo and drawing (if available).
Regarding the study of the ancient wine genome and fermentation yeasts through paleogenomics, this needs more research work to develop the method and obtain results (mainly, yeast genome and bacterial species involved in fermentation).