Fishing from the Earliest Times

by William Radcliffe

[964] Ibid., XXXI. 19.

[965] N. H., XXXI. 22.

[966] N. H., XXXII. 7.

[967] Hibbert Lecture (London, 1887), p. 57.

[968] On the ancient goddess Ninâ, see Langdon, Tammuz and Ishtar (London, 1914). There is no known representation of Ninâ. Of Bêlit, or Ishtar, many exist; of Ishtar arma ferens that on a seal in Tammuz and Ishtar, Plate I., No. 1, is perhaps the best.

[969] See Nikolski, Documents de la plus ancienne époque chaldéenne, Nos. 265 and 269; this last tablet (c. 2900 b.c.) records the delivery of large numbers of fish of various kinds by fishermen for two great festivals.

[970] Cf. antea, p. 217, as regards Rome.

[971] Postea, p. 427.

[972] See Greek-Roman section, Chapter XVI.

[973] Op. cit., p. 358.