[765] _Naqada and Ballas_ (London, 1896), Plate LXV. 7; and _Ancient Egypt_ (1915), Part I. p. 13, f. 3. [766] _Tools and Weapons_ (London, 1917), p. 37. [767] Bates holds (244) that the bident was only used by the nobles, and never by the professional fisherman, who employed nets, lines, traps, etc., but never the bident. He sees an analogy in the throwing sticks used by the nobles in the Old Kingdom fowling scenes, “whereas the peasants appear to have taken birds only by traps or clap nets.” [768] Bates, p. 239. [769] F. Ll. Griffith, _Beni Hasan_, Pt. IV. p. 3, Pl. XIII. fig. 3, 4. See also Newberry, _op. cit._, Pl. XXXIV. [770] A. M. Blackman, _The Rock Tombs of Meir_ (London, 1914), vol. i. 28. Cf. also Steindorff’s _Das Grab des Ti_ (Leipzig, 1913), Pl. 113. [771] Cf. _Introduction_. [772] Steindorff, _Ibid._ [773] F. Ll. Griffith, _Beni Hasan_, Pt. 4 (London, 1900), Pl. XIII. 4. For kind permission to reproduce this and the next illustration I have to thank the Egypt Exploration Society. [774] Cf. the Ø hieroglyphs in Griffith’s _Hieroglyphs_ (London, 1898), Pl. 9, fig. 180, and text, p. 44. The more elaborate form is shown by Paget-Pirie, _The Tomb of Ptahhetep_, bound in Quibell’s _Ramesseum_, London, 1898. [775] Bates, p. 242. [776] _N. H._, XXVIII. 831. Perhaps he derived his information from the not-trustworthy _Theriaca_ of Nicander, 566 ff. [777] I. 35. He visited Egypt _c._ 20 B.C. [778] P. 243. From Newberry’s _Beni Hasan_, there come, curiously enough, only two representations of Hippos and not one of a Hippo hunt. From Herodotus, II. 71, we gather that, if the beast was elsewhere hunted, at Papremis it was traditionally sacred. [779] Mac Iver and Mace (London, 1902), Pl. VII. 1. [780] T. E. Peet, _The Cemeteries of Abydos_ (London, 1914), Pt. 2, Pl. XXXIX. 3. [781] For twenty-five figures of hooks, see Bates, Pl. XI. For others curiously shaped, probably Vth Dynasty, see Lepsius, _Denkmäler_, etc. (Berlin, 1849), II. p. 96. [782] Petrie, _Kahun, Gurob, and Hawara_, p. 34. [783] Bates, p. 249. [784] F. von Bissing, _Die Mastaba des Gem-Ni-Kai_ (Berlin, 1905), vol. I., Pl. IV. fig. 2. [785] _Op. cit._, vol. III., Pl. VI. [786] P. E. Newberry, _Beni Hasan_ (London, 1893), Part 1, Pl. 29. Cf. Wilkinson, _op. cit._, vol. I., Pl. 371. [787] _Ibid._, Pl. 370. This faces my introduction. [788] Steindorff, _op. cit._, Pl. 110. Bates, p. 240, holds that “floats attached to Harpoon lines were probably in common use”: the infrequency—to say the least of it—of their representation lends but a slender support to his suggestion. [789] Klunziger, _Upper Egypt_ (1878), p. 305, states that the townsfolk hand-lined with these baits, but that the fish-eating Bedouins still employed the Spear. [790] Budge, Trans. _Book of the Dead_, vol. II. p. 362.