Fishing from the Earliest Times

by William Radcliffe

[758] N. H., X. 43, ἄμητος ἰχθύων.

[759] Op. cit., 204 ff.

[760] N. H., XXX. 8.

[761] The Scribe on the Praise of Learning. Cf. Maspero, Le Genre épistolaire chez les Égyptiens (1872), p. 48.

[762] Bates, p. 199.

[763] See Chinese Chapter.

[764] The Archæological Survey of Nubia for 1907-8 (Cairo, 1910), Plate LXV., b. 5.

[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 clapnets.”