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Since the old type Tesem lacks a tail of appropriate length and shape, it must be assumed
that it does not ultimately represent a sighthound. The curled tail carried over the back
cannot be used to balance the weight when running fast in the terrain. However, we see
the younger type of Tesem in Rekhmire and Tutankhamun.

Hound made of ivory from the tomb of Tutankhamun, Howard Carter
Collection, sold in 1939

Here, in Tutankhamun's depiction, the hound is undoubtedly fast enough both to pursue

the ostriches and to keep up with the galloping horses of the pharaoh over a greater
distance. We could say with some certainty with the dog mummy from tomb KV50, which
can be dated quite precisely around 1400 BC, and this representation some 70 years later,
that it was a sighthound of the Sloughi type.

Even if we still see the traditional way of hunting in Rekhmire, namely with temporarily

enclosed areas in which the game to be hunted was locked up beforehand at night, we are
still looking at the same type of hound with proof of origin, coming from Nubia.