Cigarette Card

Cavanders “Ancient Egypt” Cigarette Card #14 “The Fish of Lake Moaris”. Produced in 1928.

Text on reverse of card reads:

“All that now remains of the ancient Lake Moeris is known as the Lake Qurun, about thirty miles long and eight or ten miles wide. The lake must have been vastly larger in ancient times.
The water is remarkably salt and contains inexhaustible supplies of extraordinary fish. One variety resembling roach is found, which often exceeds five feet in length and thirty inches in depth.
The illustration representing the fish of Lake Moeris is from a drawing which was found in the tomb of an ancient gentlemen, who was officially employed in the Fayum province about five thousand years ago.”