23. For more information on Egyptian birds and bird art see P. Houlihan, “Bird Life along the Ancient Nile,” Ancient Egypt Magazine 3:1 (July–August 2002); P. Houlihan, “Birds in Ancient Egypt: The Plumage of the Gods,” Ancient Egypt Magazine 3:2 (September–October 2002), at http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/birds13.htm (accessed September 7, 2004); and http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/birds14.htm (accessed September 7, 2004). For a tour of Horemheb’s tomb see http://www.osirisnet.net/tombes/pharaons/horemheb/e_horemheb_part1.htm (accessed August 11, 2004). More than one title is associated with the painting. One, “The Chief Fowler Ptah-Mose,” is used by Sir Alan H. Gardiner (C. Aldred, The Development of Ancient Egyptian Art from 3200 to 1315 B.C [London: Alec Trianti, 1952], 61); another, “Keeping Pelicans and Collecting Eggs,” is used in P. Germond and J. Livet, An Egyptian Bestiary: Animals in Life and Religion in the Land of the Pharaohs (London: Thames and Hudson, 2001), fig. 106.

24. The image shown in Plate 12 is not the only Egyptian example of pelicans. A similar scene is recorded in the Sun Temple of Niuserre at Abu Gurob and in the mastaba of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep, both produced during the Fifth Dynasty (2498–2345 BCE). Houlihan, Birds of Ancient Egypt, 10. For more on birds in Egyptian art see http://library.thinkquest.org/C0121761/22.htm (accessed August 11, 2004); Aldred, Development of Ancient Egyptian Art, 61; Ehrlich, Dobkin, Wheye, and Pimm, Birdwatcher’s Handbook, 20; Germond and Livet, Egyptian Bestiary, 46 (see plate 47). Houlihan notes that in the fourth century Horapollo wrote that although Egyptians ate pelican meat, priests were to abstain. Houlihan, Birds of Ancient Egypt, 10, 13.