Note 569 — Chapter XVII

See antea, p. 157, and note 1. According to Petrie, Tools and Weapons (London, 1917), p. 37 f.: “The European fish-hooks do not appear before the fonderia age: in Greece and Roman Italy hooks are common.” G. Lafaye, in Daremberg and Saglio, op. cit., III. 8. s.v. “hamus,” gives figure 3696, a simple bronze hook, figure 3697, a small double hook in the Museum at Naples, figure 3698, a quadruple hook (four bronze barbs attached to the angles of a square plate of lead), and figure 3699, a bronze hamus catenatus. H. B. Walters—Catalogue of the Bronzes, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan in British Museum (London, 1899), Nos. 38 and 39—describes, but does not figure, two hooks of the Mycenæan period from Rhodes, 2 inches and 27⁄8 inches long, which are dated about 1450 b.c. Petrie, loc. cit., states that the “usual pattern of the Greek-Romans is, as figured in No. 100, while 101 and 102 are the limits of size.”