Note 821 — Chapter XXV · ABSTENTION FROM FISH

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.