Originally published at: Dog is a surprising sight at the Great Pyramid of Giza - Boing Boing
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Via Popkin!
How did the dog get up there, tho!!!
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I think that the dogs are probably thinking the exact same thing about humans.
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“Who’s a good guardian of the dead? YOU ARE, that’s who!”
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Paging, @anon94804983!
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Just doing his job keeping all the cat-headed people safely on the ground (goodboy!)
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Didn’t appear to have a stash of bones up there (yet).
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Dog was barking at the birds?
Nah - dog was barking at and thinking of chasing the hang-glider!
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Paraglider!
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WOOF.
Tutankhamon’s famous Anubis in situ
A very similar, but much-abused Anubis was also found in King Horemheb’s tomb.
Both images were made by the justly famed photographer of archaeological sites and artifacts, Harry Burton.
Anubis Holding the Moon - Hathor Temple at Deir el Medina
Anubis with Fifth Dynasty King Niuserre and the goddess Wadjet
Anubis and Wadjet, detail of a lintel from Amenemhat I’s mortuary temple
Lintel of Amenemhat I and Deities | Middle Kingdom | The Metropolitan Museum
J&K, Egyptomaniacs, Horus and Anubis in Islamic Cairo, photo, installation size 42×28 cm, individual photograph size 112×75 cm, 2006, photo: Osama Dawod
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I hope the pupper is OK.
When she was about 8 months old our little shihtzu pup disappeared into the yard for quite a while. When I noticed she hadn’t returned to the house I set out to find her. She had climbed a three foot pile of flagstones I’d stacked in the yard, but then had no idea how to get down, so she was just standing there waiting for help. I had to lift her off.
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Oh so very same!!!
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I was so disappointed when I finally looked up a photo of what a real Egyptian jackal (now reclassified as a “golden wolf”) looks like and found out they are basically just regular wolves; no extra-long necks or pointy ears or skinny snoots or anything.
If he really was meant to be a jackal then I think my dogs may look more like Anubis than the canids the Egyptians modeled Anubis after did.
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Which canid/blend of canids Anubis is has not been definitively determined. Most Egyptologists these days seem to think he’s most likely a mythic jackal x domestic pupper hybrid.
The Egyptians’ love of symbolism is frustratingly accompanied by an aversion to definition in the dictionary sense - a book I have, Who Were the Pharaohs? by Stephen Quirke says an Ancient Egyptian’s dictionary would simply be a long list of words, nothing else. The word, the name, contains a being or thing’s very essence. Definitions would be superfluous.
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AKA silver backed jackals are very fine and big-ear’d - I’ve seen ones who are even finer’n red foxes
Egyptian dogs were, like our own, of all shapes and sizes. Their most prized breed, the Greyhoundesque Tjesm, began disappearing under Greek rule, and their loss is tragic.
This ancient Mastiff’s size has obvs either been greatly exaggerated, or that’s a little kid holding the lead.
MAY 26 – Khoui, a nobleman from Assiut, is shown walking his dog Meniou-pu in a painting on the side of his more than 3000-year-old wooden coffin displayed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, April 14,1997. Noblemen in ancient Egypt used to raise cats, monkeys and dogs while the Pharaohs kept lions and hunting dogs with whom they are sometimes pictured in fierce scenes from the hunt.
(AP Photo/Enric Marti)
Meniou-pu is a small Tjesm. It’s wonderful that Khoui (AKA Khui) loved Meniou-pu so much he wanted them to be together throughout eternity. He obviously ensured he was correctly depicted, and the artist took far more pains with ees pupper than with Khui’s image!
Yes, that awkwardly painted hand on a stick is indeed an ancient pooper scooper.
This delightful Corgiesque pupper is from a Middle Kingdom tomb belonging to a governor in Beni Hasan, Middle Egypt. His name is directly above him: Ankhu. This can be translated as Lively, or the modern name Frisky.
A Tjesm pair, ca. 2345–2333 BCE, Saqqara
A slate figure of a canine (jackal), ca. 3200–3000 BCE
Painting made after a fresco from Tomb of Rekhmire, showing the hunting hounds, ca. 1479–1425 BCE
A Tjesm and curiously, a mongoose. Beni Hasan
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Hmm… I wonder if a Black-Backed Jackal would have been familiar to the ancient Egyptians as their native range doesn’t extend to Northern Africa? I suppose they could have seen specimens brought from afar since they were a major cultural/trade hub.
A Pharaoh Hound is definitely a breed I could see as a direct inspiration for Anubis though.
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Yes! The Ibizan also!
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Why does King Niuserre need a soother?
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LOLZ
Anubis is bestowing upon him The Breath of Life. Since it’s coming from a divinity, it’s Extra Special air.
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