[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.