The traditional wages of a Fellowcraft Mason are Corn, Wine, Oil and Salt. There is a very good article about that here: phoenixmasonry.org/cornwine.htm
Writing in New Scientist, Alison George explains what's written on the 5,000-year-old tablet: "We can see a human head eating from a bowl, meaning 'ration,' and a conical vessel, meaning 'beer.' Scattered around are scratches recording the amount of beer for a particular worker." Beer wages were by no means limited to Mesopotamia. In ancient Egypt, there are records of people receiving beer for their work, roughly 4 to 5 liters per day for people building the pyramids.
Here is Egyptian beer being recreated. It may make you hurl.
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