[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.
[791] Yet compare the Scriptural prohibition, “Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk,” which appears to have been one of the commandments included in the earliest Decalogue. Sir J. G. Frazer discusses this curious injunction in Folklore in the Old Testament, vol. III. p. 111 ff.
[792] Vol. I. pl. 10, f. 11.
[793] Petrie, Medum (1892), Pl. XI. A good example (Vth Dynasty) of a Net heaped up in a boat is found in N. de G. Davies, Ptahhetep (London, 1901), Pl. VI., in the right-hand column of the hieroglyphs.
[794] See my Assyrian Chapter, p. 368. The Gilgamesh representation dates c. 2800 b.c.
[795] N. de G. Davies, The Rock Tombs of Deir el Gebrawi (1902), Pt. II. Pl. V.
[796] P. 259. The reason assigned is not convincing: “No lead weights are depicted on the monuments, for by the time they were introduced the artist was devoting himself to mythological and religious scenes.” Petrie, Kahun, Gurob, and Hawara, p. 34, however, assigns some weights of lead from Kahun to XVIIIth Dyn.
[797] Cf. Petrie, Abydos (London, 1902), pl. 41.