Note 796 — Chapter XXIV · TACKLE
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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.