Keywords: Egyptian - Dog - Walters 71523 - Top.jpg This figure of a reclining short-tailed dog seluki with ears perked is schematically carved The eyes are shown in relief The piece is perforated horizontally through the belly; another hole leads from this perforation to the base 2nd half 4th millennium BC Predynastic Egypt hippopotamus ivory cm 4 4 1 29 0 48 accession number 71 523 21078 MacGregor Collection date and mode of acquisition unknown lot 708 Dikran Kelekian New York and Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters Baltimore 1923 mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1923 place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license Egyptian predynastic art in the Walters Art Museum |