The main purpose of this thesis was to systematically study and analyse the scenes showing the catching of waterfowl by means of a hexagonal net found in the published Old Kingdom tombs of the Memphite area and by doing so trying to understand all technical aspects of this net. Although the percentage of scenes showing the catching of waterfowl with a hexagonal net is very small within the decoration program of the tombs (1%: 70 out of 6943 registers), fowling with a ‘hexagonal net’ is the most popular way of fowling depicted.
