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“Return from the Hunt”, Thebes, 18th Dynasty. As
we see a drawing, but without exact provenance
and without a secured photograph of a
representation in a tomb or a temple.

With regard to the Dorcas gazelle (Gazella dorcas) in this context of domestication, it
must be noted that this species of gazelle can apparently be tamed very easily and is thus
domesticable, as A.E. Brehm states at the end of the 19th century [50].

So whether this species of gazelle was kept in Ancient Egypt in a form of domestication
would certainly be worth investigating. The possibility was given, since, as already
mentioned above, there were such “game parks” where one could occasionally hunt. But
the ancient Egyptians also kept other animals as pets, such as baboons or Nile crocodiles.

In Daumas we read the following (IV. Hunting the Gazelle, p.153): “The gazelles are also

raised by the tents, they go on marches with the sheep, but always run away in the end.”