IDENTIFIERS
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id:	51325
accession number:	E.98.1911

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Terracotta figure of a dog. Nile silt clay, mould-made in three sections: front and two sides from the shoulders to back legs. The hollow feet have also been sealed with two slabs of clay. There is a small hole at the dog's rear, possibly to function as an air hole during firing.

There are traces of a plaster wash and red pigment on the surface. This small dog and would have been completely painted. It has a curled tail and pointed ears. A collar and either amulet or bell is only just distinguishable but typical of this form of figurine. The legs are modelled in two pairs so that the figure stands easily. This feature suggests a fairly late date, and comparable examples were found at the city of Karanis in the Fayoum, in a level dating from AD 250-350. It is possible, however, that they were manufactured from an earlier date.

Dogs were associated with the star Sirius (Egyptian Sothis), whose rising was linked with the flooding of the Nile. Such images therefore have associations with fertility and also, through Isis, with the afterlife. Terracotta figures of dogs are found as early as the Predynastic period in Egypt, but they become especially prevalent in the Roman period, when they adopt a classical form and manufacturing technique.
title:	animal

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Antiquities

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/51325





TECHNIQUES
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mouldmade

CATEGORIES
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category: to be identified

DATING
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creation date:	100 - 395
creation date earliest:	100
creation date latest:	395
culture:	Roman


DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 7.25



CITATIONS
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Roman Egyptomania
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IMAGES

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surrogate: original
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surrogate: preview
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