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*R. Daub 1979, p.18, “… the Wolf is lacking in Africa, including Egypt, so
the domestic dog must have been imported. The earliest domestic dogs of Egypt came
with immigrants from the Middle East. All Egyptian dog races can only be imported.”

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**DWZRV-Sighthound Club Yearbook, “Tens of Thousands and 75 Years of Sighthounds”

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Przezdziecki, Les Lévriers, Chapter IV” (see Zwahlen/Maerki), reports that for fifteen
years in the 20th century, such dogs were shipped from Beirut to Marseille to replace the

increasingly rare imports of Sloughis from North Africa (Zwahlen/Maerki, “Windhunde
Rassen, Haltung, Sport”)

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Possibly from the tomb of Ny-Ankh-Pepy, H. & D. Waters “Sudan & Nubia”, The Sudan
Archaeological Research Society, Bulletin No. 11-2007 p.62. also Nubian archers with their
dogs from a tomb of Ny-Ankh-Pepy at Hierakonpolis, source: cf.Fischer 1961, figs 3,4, pls

XII-XIII) as a Saluki, although it is also used as a generic term, “Saluki” being Arabic for
“Sighthound”.

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Salima Ikram email 16.05.2017
Valley of the Kings, Tomb 50. Dyn. XVIII.? JE 38640; 21+4/27+1. L: 97.5, H: 56; head L: 24

A dog, Canis familiaris, related to the saluki, probably used as a hunting dog. This type of
dog is still found in the south of Egypt and is used for hunting. The dog was ventrally
eviscerated and desiccated using natron, before being wrapped in bandages held in place
with resin. These bandages have long since fallen off, though one or two scraps are
visible. The dog is over six years old, according to its dentition and the epiphysial fusion
of its bones.It is uncertain whose pet the dog was, as there was no name or even human
body attached to the tomb. It was excavated by T. Davis in 1906. Davis speculated that the

dog belonged to King Amenhotep II (c. 1427-1401 BC) who was buried nearby in KV 35.
Another possibility is that he belonged to King Horemheb (1319-1307 BC), buried in KV 57.
Bibliography: Davis 1908: 4-5, 17; Reeves and Wilkinson 1996.