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GREEK URN
This beautiful vase is of Greek
design (c.380–360 b.c.),
though it was found in
southern Italy. The young girl
EASTERN WORSHIP is dangling a tortoise to tease
In the Far East, dogs her pet dog. The bracelets
are used for many on her ankle are to ward
purposes and the off evil spirits.
images of dogs are
included in religious
worship. This stone
temple god, in
the form of a
lionlike dog, is
from Thailand.

The
Townley
hounds
sculpture,
collected by
the Englishman
Charles Townley
(1737–1805),
was found at
Monte Cagnolo
near Rome,
Italy, during
the late 1700s

ONE WOMAN AND HER DOG
This is the skeleton of a
woman who was buried
with her hand resting on
the body of her dog. The
skeletons were found in
Israel on an archeological site
called Ein Mallaha and date
back to about 12,000 years
ago. This is one of the
earliest examples of a
TOWNLEY HOUNDS domestic dog ever to be
The Romans kept dogs from the earliest times. discovered in the world.
They used greyhounds and bloodhounds for
hunting; large mastiffs were thought of as ideal
not only as fighting dogs but also in war. This
exquisite marble sculpture from Rome, 2nd
century a.d., is of a pair of seated greyhounds. Italian brass
collar
DOGS’ COLLARS
Dogs have been wearing collars ever German spiked
since Egyptian times. We know this iron collar
because dogs in art have been depicted
wearing collars – from a painting found
CAVE CANEM in Pompeii to relatively modern
Just as today “Beware of the paintings and sculptures.
dog” is written on gates, the DOG ROSE
Romans wrote Cave canem, The ancient Greeks
which means the same in Silver presentation collar thought this flower
Latin. This mosaic, c.4th had magical
century a.d., comes from an qualities and used it
entrance hall of a villa, to treat people who
excavated in Bodrum in Turkey. had been bitten by a
rabid dog (pp. 62–63).

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