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Late predynastic Egyptian representations of canine figures on palettes and other objects can be divided into jackals, wild dogs (lycaon pictus) - which are very prominent - and domesticated dogs, among which several breeds can be distinguished. Wild dogs, which are animals of the low desert, appear to symbolize the margins of ordered cosmos; they are absent from reliefs of the dynastic period. They do not participate directly in scenes of hunting organized by human beings. The attention devo...
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- Archéo-Nil: Société pour l'étude des cultures prépharaoniques de la vallée du Nil Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Archéo-Nil: Revue de la société pour l'étude des cultures prépharaoniques de la vallée du Nil
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- 3
- Pages:
- 57-74
- Publication date:
- 1993-01-01
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- John Baines
- Copyright date:
- 1993
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Symbolic roles of canine figures on early monuments
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