After the dance appeared Egyptian singers and buffoons for the further amusement of the company.
At length some of the courtiers forsook the hall, their grave demeanor being somewhat overcome by intoxication.
[Unfortunately women, as well as men, are to be seen depicted on the monuments in an intoxicated condition.

One man is being carried home, like a log of wood, on the heads of his servants.

Wilkinson II.168.Another is standing on his head II.169.and several ladies are in the act of returning the excessive quantity which they have drunk.

Wilkinson II.167.At the great Techu-festival at Dendera intoxication seems to have been as much commanded as at the festivals of Dionysus under the Ptolemies, one of whom (Ptolemy Dionysus) threatened those who remained sober with the punishment of death.

But intoxication was in general looked upon by the Egyptians as a forbidden and despicable vice.