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Collars for which dogs? Thus, for example, one meets, in the tomb

of Nebamun (Hatshepsut era) with a
During Maherpra’s era, in the New magnificent Sloughia pinkish white, with

Kingdom, the sighthounds (Tjesems) are no swollen teats, and decorated with a collar
longer the prick eared dogs represented similar to those discovered in Maherpra’s
during the Old Kingdom. tomb. It is the detail of a scene where one
sees the owner, “scribe and accountant of
The hunting dogs in vogue, still named grains in Amon’s Granary of divine
Tjesems, are now lop-eared Sighthounds, offerings”, sitting with his wife in front of
of Sloughi type. One particularly liked a substantial supplies.

substantial Sloughi, with powerful jaws, of
very pale sand color, almost white, with a Sitting calmly, on a mat of green papyrus,
shade of rose, fine hair enabling the at the foot of her mistress’ armchair, is our
showing through of flesh color. Sloughia; although a leash is hanging from
her collar, it is not tied to the armchair, as
On the collar 24075, the writing ṯsm n pr.f is often the case for other animals.

“Sighthound of her house”, is in some way, Faithful against all odds, she accompanies
a mark of ownership. In addition, the name the shadow of her masters for eternity.
of the animal t3 n.t nỉw.t, “the One-from-
town” refers to Thebes, the ultimate town.
Furthermore, this name indicates that it is
about a female. In fact, in representations,
the female dog is particularly valued, in

particular a lactating female dog (close to
whelping). First, because one notes that
often a bitch is intense in hunting and
ferocious in combat, by a transfer of the
maternal instinct to defend. Furthermore,

and above all, the representation of a
lactating female in funerary paintings,
particularly near a deceased couple,
constitutes an obvious pledge of fecundity
and prosperity. Female Sighthound Sloughi. Thebes, Nebamun’s tomb.
After Davies-Gardiner, 1936, Pl. XV