Courtesy of Boslon Museum of Fine Arts 

 Hunting scene from a Rhodo-Milesian vase of the seventh century, B.C. 



Cretan, erect-eared hound, dating from earliest Minoan limes, about 4000 B.C. (From cover of a steatite 

 ■vessel found at Mochlos). The Cn^lan hound is abundant in Crete today and has an extremely ancient lineage, 

 whicli can be traced back to a prehistoric domestication of the Abyssinian wolf. [From Nouveaux Mem. Soc. Helv. 

 Sci. Nat. Vol. XLVI] 

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