re common in all ages.

_Fighting Weapons._--The battle-axe has been described above with axes.
The flint dagger (59) is found from S.D. 40-56. A very finely made
copper dagger (60) with deep midrib is dated to between 55 and 60 S.D.
Copper daggers with parallel ribbing (61) down the middle are common in
the XIth-XIVth Dynasties; and in the XVIIIth-XXth Dynasties they are
often shown in scenes and on figures. The falchion with a curved blade
(62) belongs to the XVIIIth-XXth Dynasty. The rapier (63) or lengthened
dagger is rarely found, and is probably of prehistoric Greek origin. The
sword is of Greek and Roman age, always double-edged and of iron. The
spear is not commonly found in Egypt, until the Greek age, but it is
represented from the XIth Dynasty onward; it belonged to the Semitic
people (L.D. ii. 133). The bow was always of wood, in one piece in the
prehistoric and early times, also of two horns in the Ist Dynasty; but
the compound bow of horn is rarely found, only as an importation, in the
XVIIIth Dynasty. The arrow-heads of flint (64-66) and of bone (68-69)
were pointed, and also square-ended (67) for hunting (P.R.T. ii. vi.;
vii. A., 7; xxxiv.). The copper arrow-heads appear in the XIXth Dynasty,
of blade form with tang (70); the triangular form (72), and leaf form
with socket (71), are of the XXVIth Dynasty. Triangular iron arrows with
tang are of the same age. Tangs show that the shaft was a reed, sockets
show that it was of wood. Many early arrows (XIIth) have only hard wood
points of conical form. The sling is rarely shown in the XIXth-XXth
Dynasties; and the only known example is probably of the XXVIth.

_Hunting Weapons._--The forked lance of flint was at first wide with
slight hollow (73) from S.D. 32-43; then the hollow became a V notch
(74) in 38 S.D. and onward. The lance was fixed in a wooden shaft for
throwing, and held in by a check-cord from flying too far if it missed
the animal (P.N. LXXIII.). The harpoon for fishing was at first of bone
(75), and was imitated in copper (76, 77) from S.D. 36 onwards. The
boomerang or throw-stick (78) was used from the Ist to the XXIInd
Dynasty, and probably later. Fish-hooks of copper (79-82) are found from
the Ist Dynasty to Roman times. A trap for animals' legs, formed by
splints of palm stick radiating round a central hole, is figured in S.D.
60, and one was found of probably the XXth Dynasty. Fishing nets were
common in all historic times, and the lead sin