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hence figures extensively in classic literature. 

 Martial's epigram, for instance, is well known. 



Finally, it may be instructive to note the 

 observations which Arrian, a military officer 

 in the service of the Emperor Hadrian, has 

 written down in regard to coursing, as prac- 

 tised among the Gauls with both scent- and 

 sight-hounds. In his dissertation on hunting 

 he writes: 



"The most opulent and luxurious among 



Courtesy Melropolilan Museum oj Art, TV. Y. 

 Erect-eared hound from Cyprus; 300-400 B.C. 



the Gauls course in this manner. They send 

 out good Hare-finders early in the morning, 

 to those places where it is likely to find Hares 

 sitting, who send back word if they have 

 found any, and what number; then they go 

 out themselves, and put them up, and lay in 

 the dogs, themselves following on horseback. 



"Whoever has good greyhounds should 

 never lay them in too near the Hare, nor run 

 more than two at a time. For, though the 

 animal is very swift, and will oftentimes beat 

 the dogs, yet, when she is first started, she is 

 so terrified by the hollowing and by the dogs 

 being very close, that her heart is overcome 

 by fear; and, in the confusion, very often the 

 best sporting Hares are killed without shew- 

 ing any diversion. She should, therefore, be 

 suffered to run some distance from her form 

 and re-collect her spirits, and then, if she is a 

 good sporting Hare, she will lift up her ears, 

 and stretch out with long rates from her seat, 

 the dogs directing their course after her with 

 great activity of limbs, as if they were leaping, 

 affording a spectacle worthy the trouble that 

 must necessarily be employed in properly 

 breeding and training these dogs." 



Finally, special mention may be made of 

 one of the subjects represented in the accom- 

 panying illustrations. Varieties of the hound, 

 including the familiar one with erect ears, 

 are incised in a limestone grave-stela now in 

 the Cairo Museum. It is a royal monument 

 found at Thebes, and dates from the 11th 

 dynasty, approximately 2100 B.C. The 

 following note regarding this stela has been 

 kindly supplied by Miss Caroline Ransom, 

 of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 



"The stela shows King Horus accompanied 

 by one attendant and five of his dogs. The 

 latter were evidently of a southern race, for 

 all have Berber names inscribed in Egyptian 

 hieroglyphs above their figures, and in three 

 instances a translation of the foreign name 

 into Egyptian is written vertically before the 

 dog's breast. This stela finds mention in an 

 Egyptian document written nearly one thou- 

 sand years later than the date of its erection, 

 namely in the "Abbott papyrus" now in the 

 British Museum. In this document is con- 

 tained the official report of the inspection of 

 the royal tombs, under Rameses IX of the 

 twentieth dynasty, to ascertain what damage 

 had been done by tomb robbers. It is one 

 of the romantic episodes of Egyptian archae- 

 ology that the actual stela mentioned in the 

 ancient document should come to light." 



