Editing Nile perch (section)

==Religion==
Nile perch were involved with the worship of [[Neith]].<ref name=Gautier>{{cite journal |last1=Gautier |first1=Achilles |date=2005 |title=Animal Mummies and Remains from the Necropolis of Elkab (Upper Egypt) |url=https://revistas.uam.es/archaeofauna/article/view/7441 |journal=archaeofauna |volume=14 |pages=139-170 |access-date=25 December 2023}}</ref> As a result nile perch were sometimes mummified.<ref name=Gautier /> A deposit of several thousand mummified perch was excavated in an area to the west of [[Esna]] where there was a temple to  Neith.<ref name=Baetens /> Mummified perch have also been found at [[Gurob]]  near a temple to  Neith while perch statuettes have been found at [[Sais]] again in the context of a temple to Neith.<ref name=Baetens>{{cite journal |last1=Baetens |first1=Gert |date=2013 |title=The mummified fish of Esna: a case study in animal worship |url=https://lirias.kuleuven.be/retrieve/290822 |journal=Goettinger Miszellen: Beitraege zur aegyptologischen Diskussion |pages=17-23 |access-date=25 December 2023}}</ref>