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Figure 2: the Golenischeff Shell Figure 3: the Narmer Palette, Wikiwand
However, the Sloughi type can be found The same applies to the Islamic conquest of
shortly afterwards on the Narmer Palette North Africa by the Arabs/Bedouins, or
from Hierakonpolis (7) approximately 3200 even to Roman or Vandal imports. All these
BC. assumptions, all based on imports into
Africa, have so far been unsubstantiated
So far, it has been suspected that Salukis and should be rejected as proof of the
were brought to Egypt from the Middle Sloughi’s origin.
East (11), but after the victory of the
Egyptians over the Prince of Kadesch, for IMPORTS FROM SYRIA AND IRAQ TO
example, at the Battle at Megiddo (8) under FRANCE (MARSEILLE)
Thutmosis III. There is however evidence
that this is not the case. It was recorded It has been alleged that Sloughis were
that 340 prisoners, 2238 horses, cattle and present in the Levant: Syria and Iraq,
other animals were taken, but not (Zwahlen/Maerki, 10, p82), “… after the
apparently any dogs (according to the First World War … In today’s Iraq and Syria
Annals of Thutmose III (9)). there were Sloughis, and Przezdziecki tells
us, that for a time of fifteen years ships
Bedouin Arabs were not found in Egypt brought such hounds from Beirut to
until the 1st century BC, so they cannot Marseille, … to substitute the imports from
have brought the Sighthound with them North Africa. …There were successful French
which was found there much earlier in the breeders and fanciers in Switzerland and
whole of North Africa.
Germany*.”
Editor's note: Numbers in brackets refer to
the literature, asterisks to footnotes at the
end of the article.
