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the Greeks, 652 b. c, wherein dogs are shown attacking cavalry horses, 

 they having been taught to pin them by the hams. Pertaining to this 

 period there is at the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, a silver vase, most beau- 

 tifully decorated with an Iranian hunting-scene. One dog has attacked a 

 wild boar, and there is another most beautifully outlined dog of boar- 

 hound type. 



Greek art has supplied many dogs for illustration, but there is little 

 diversity, which is surprising, considering that there were a fair number 

 of varieties by that time. We have the greyhound type in plenty, a moderate- 

 sized dog as depicted by the Greeks, as well as the molossian already re- 

 ferred to. At the Metropolitan Museum in Central Park will be found a 

 replica of the mural tablet at the tomb of Korallion, wife of Agatha, at the 

 Dipylon gate, Athens. This lady is represented facing left and sitting, 

 while facing her in a low relief is the figure of a man whose costume extends 

 to the ground, and showing against the bottom of this flowing garment is 

 a small dog looking anxiously up to its mistress. The head of the dog 

 is a good representation of Pomeranian type, while the body is well covered 

 with a tufty coat. Here again the difficulty of showing a Pomeranian coat 

 might have been sought to be overcome by making it more like a poodle's 

 coat. This dog was apparently very common, for in *' Die Attischen Grab- 

 reliefs," Alexander Conze, Berlin, 1900, Vol. H., there are about twenty 

 representations of toy dogs, the great majority being the same small Pome- 

 ranian type, showing more or less coat. 



The Cypriote collection at this museum also provided another new 

 dog. This small model has all the look of a spaniel. The tail and feet 

 are missing, but the head is perfect and also the body. From the wealth of 

 coat, the low feathered ears and the expression, this dog appears to be most 

 characteristically a spaniel. In this collection there are also two small 

 stone carvings of a greyhound catching a hare, which seem to form a com- 

 panion pair. One of the Greek type of small greyhound dogs also appears 

 in stone, and was found at the side of a sarcophagus which has at one end 

 in bas-relief a dog of similar type and in the same position. It might be 

 that this was a favourite dog of the deceased magnate. 



The statuary of Rome at the Metropolitan Museum runs very much 

 on the Greek order of dogs, but there is also the hound-eared dog, and on 

 one small relief of a youth training a horse there is a very handsome dog 

 which looks larger than the average of these greyhounds, and shows more 



