Note 147 — Chapter CXXXVI · B.

See P.S.B.A. IX, p. 313, and two previous articles of mine there referred to. The corrections I have to make are the following:—I wrongly assumed that the fish which in hieratic papyri crosses the foot of the sign in the variants of was the same fish as we find in the group = = . The fishes are different. On referring to M. Naville’s Festival Hall of Osorkon II, pl. 18, pictures will be found of the and the . The first of these is clearly the fish in , ḥem-reu, and the corresponding sign in the variant is to be read , ḥem, in harmony with the other evidence produced by W. Max Müller (Recueil, vol. IX). The picture of it does not enable one to determine its species. The pictures at Bubastis of the seem to indicate the Synodontis, but a picture found by Petrie (Medum, pl. 12) shows an immense fish which has been identified with the Latus or Perca Nilotica. This being of the Acanthopterygian family is of course a very formidable warrior, like our own small perch, which, as Mr. Ward says, “does not yield its life without endangering the person of its captor, for the formidable rows of spinous rays belonging to the first dorsal fin have wounded the hands of many an incautious angler.”