[818] El Bersheh, Pt. I. (London, n. d.), Pl. XXIII.
[819] Tombeau de Nakhti (Mém. de la Mission française au Caire, vol. V. fasc. 3., Paris, 1893), Fig. 4, p. 480.
[820] Les Monuments des Hycsos, Bruxelles, 1914. Connected with these and somewhat confirming Capart appear to be two life-size figures of Amenemhat III., in one of which the king is seated between two goddesses holding fish.
[821] These offerings (15,500 dressed, 2,200 white fish, etc.) are named under the heading, “Oblations of the festivals which the King founded for his Father Amon-Re.” But in the summary of the good deeds wrought for the gods by Rameses III.—“I founded for them divine offerings of barley, wheat, wine, incense, fruit, cattle and fowl”—observe the complete silence as to fish, because these offerings were to the gods, not to the temples. Cf. Breasted, Ancient Records, IV., paragraphs 237, 243, and 363.
[822] Antea, p. 123.
[823] Mutilation was not invariable, even in the XIIth Dynasty, as Beni Hasan discloses.
[824] In the Book of the Dead, Chapter 154.
[825] P. Lacau, Suppressions et modifications des signes dans les textes funebraires, Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache, vol. 51 (1913), 42 ff.
[826] Petrie, Six Temples at Thebes (London, 1897), Pl. XVI., f. 15, fish from foundation deposit of Taussert, and Pl. XVIII., from Siptah.
[827] XVII. 1, 47. Latopolis is now Esneh.