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Houlihan, P. 1996. The Animal World of the Pharaohs London
Fig. 30. Rock drawing featuring a grand procession of game animals. An Ostrich, an African Elephant, a two-horned rhinoceros, and perhaps a Scimitar-horned Oryx and a Soemmering's Gazelle, are chased by a bold hunter with bow and arrows.

Near Silwa Bahari, between Edfu and Kom Ombo, in Upper Egypt. Probably from the Amratian (Naqada I) Period.

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