Armeno "ar̄agast" ‘tenda, vela’, ‘pressoio del vino’. Con un’appendice su ebraico biblico "migdal"

The Armenian noun ar̄agast is described in modern lexicography as having not only the meaning of ‘veil, tent, sail’, but also the one of ‘wine press’. The article investigates this last semantic value, and argues that it could be ancient, even if it is not attested in Classical Armenian: the argument developed considers the traditional technology of vinification based on a hole, dug in the soil, presumably topped by a wood structure covered by a tent. The same referent can be proposed for the Biblical Hebrew migdal in Is. 5, 2.