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Wine Press

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Wine Press
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One of the many wine presses found on the south bank of Lake Mariut. They belonged to the wine growing villas that began to develop in the Ptolemaic period and expanded rapidly in Roman times. They produced a well-known wine, which was praised by such famous poets as Virgil and Horace.

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