Representations of the Dog in Seventh-Century BCE Assyrian Letters

I. Breier

Representations of the Dog in Seventh-Century BCE Assyrian Letters

Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry

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This article examines the attitude towards the dog exhibited in the corpus of seventhcentury BCE Assyrian letters. The image of the dog is ambivalent, denoting both its loyalty and submission and its potential for violence. Both these aspects are applied to human beings – tradition reaching back to the beginning of the second millennium BCE.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	19-36
Journal	Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages
Volume	39
Issue number	2
State	Published - 2013

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Representations of the Dog in Seventh-Century BCE Assyrian Letters

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