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Revision as of 18:33, 5 August 2022 editSemsûrî (talk | contribs)Autopatrolled, Extended confirmed users, Pending changes reviewers62,114 edits The reference used for the image described the dog depicted as Aksaray Malaklisi.Tag: 2017 wikitext editor← Previous edit Revision as of 18:35, 5 August 2022 edit undoSemsûrî (talk | contribs)Autopatrolled, Extended confirmed users, Pending changes reviewers62,114 edits It has to be past sense when the dog is an ancient race. Everything else would simply not be common sense. The description is from 1886 so past tense as wellTags: Reverted Visual editNext edit →
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The '''] Mastiff''',<ref name=":1">{{cite book |last1=Wynn |first1=M.B. |title=History of The Mastiff - Gathered From Sculpture, Pottery, Carvings, Paintings and Engravings; Also From Various Authors, With Remarks On Same (A Vintage Dog Books Breed Classic). |date=1886 |publisher=Read Books |isbn=9781446548929 |location=Alcester |page=24}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{cite book |last1=Darwin |first1=Charles |title=The variation of animals and plants under domestication |date=1998 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |location=Baltimore, Md. |isbn=9780801858666 |page=17 |edition=Johns Hopkins paperbacks}}</ref> is a dog ] native to Northern ]. This dog is often used as a ] against predators and were bred by the Assyrians and ] for lion and wild horse-hunting.<ref name=":3">{{cite journal |last1=Gwatkin |first1=R. D. S. |date=1 March 1933 |title=Dogs and human migrations |url=https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/AJA00382809_3273 |journal=Journal of the South African Veterinary Association |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=160 |doi=10.10520/AJA00382809_3273}}</ref> The '''] Mastiff''',<ref name=":1">{{cite book |last1=Wynn |first1=M.B. |title=History of The Mastiff - Gathered From Sculpture, Pottery, Carvings, Paintings and Engravings; Also From Various Authors, With Remarks On Same (A Vintage Dog Books Breed Classic). |date=1886 |publisher=Read Books |isbn=9781446548929 |location=Alcester |page=24}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{cite book |last1=Darwin |first1=Charles |title=The variation of animals and plants under domestication |date=1998 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |location=Baltimore, Md. |isbn=9780801858666 |page=17 |edition=Johns Hopkins paperbacks}}</ref> was a dog ] native to Northern ]. This dog is often used as a ] against predators and were bred by the Assyrians and ] for lion and wild horse-hunting.<ref name=":3">{{cite journal |last1=Gwatkin |first1=R. D. S. |date=1 March 1933 |title=Dogs and human migrations |url=https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/AJA00382809_3273 |journal=Journal of the South African Veterinary Association |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=160 |doi=10.10520/AJA00382809_3273}}</ref>
The name is most likely derived from the images of this type of dog that appear in ] and other ] reliefs dating from the 10th to 6th century BCE ].<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":4">{{cite web |last1=Mark |first1=Joshua |title=Dogs & Their Collars in Ancient Mesopotamia |url=https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1175/dogs--their-collars-in-ancient-mesopotamia/ |website=World History Encyclopedia |language=en}}</ref><ref = ":5">{{cite web |title=History |url=http://www.amamolossers.com/history.html |website=American Molosser Association |language=en}}</ref><ref =":5">{{cite book |last1=Leighton |first1=Robert |title=Dogs and All about Them |date=1910 |publisher=Cassell, Limited |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=jUBIAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false|page=2}}</ref> The name is most likely derived from the images of this type of dog that appear in ] and other ] reliefs dating from the 10th to 6th century BCE ].<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":4">{{cite web |last1=Mark |first1=Joshua |title=Dogs & Their Collars in Ancient Mesopotamia |url=https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1175/dogs--their-collars-in-ancient-mesopotamia/ |website=World History Encyclopedia |language=en}}</ref><ref = ":5">{{cite web |title=History |url=http://www.amamolossers.com/history.html |website=American Molosser Association |language=en}}</ref><ref =":5">{{cite book |last1=Leighton |first1=Robert |title=Dogs and All about Them |date=1910 |publisher=Cassell, Limited |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=jUBIAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false|page=2}}</ref>
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== Description == == Description ==
In the ''History of The Mastiff - Gathered From Sculpture, Pottery, Carvings, Paintings and Engravings; Also From Various Authors, With Remarks On Same (A Vintage Dog Books Breed Classic)'', M.B. Wynn describes ancient Assyrian's clay tablet's depictions of the Assyrian Mastiff:{{blockquote|It is also worthy of remark that the Assyrians were always careful to define long hair when it existed, but in this specimen the stern appears free from any roughness, although so minute are the details that the very fraying at the end of the rope is depicted, the loose skin hangs down the face in enormous wrinkles or folds, and the lips were extremely pendulous evidently, although the mouth is marked by a slit or line in the usual conventional form of Assyrian sculpture. The ears are of medium size, chest very deep, and limbs massive, the head short and of great volumn, and muzzle short and truncated. There is a great similarity between this dog and some of our noted English specimens.<ref name=":1" />}} In 1886, M.B. Wynn described the ancient Assyrian's clay tablet's depictions of the Assyrian Mastiff:{{blockquote|It is also worthy of remark that the Assyrians were always careful to define long hair when it existed, but in this specimen the stern appears free from any roughness, although so minute are the details that the very fraying at the end of the rope is depicted, the loose skin hangs down the face in enormous wrinkles or folds, and the lips were extremely pendulous evidently, although the mouth is marked by a slit or line in the usual conventional form of Assyrian sculpture. The ears are of medium size, chest very deep, and limbs massive, the head short and of great volumn, and muzzle short and truncated. There is a great similarity between this dog and some of our noted English specimens.<ref name=":1" />}}


==See also== ==See also==

Revision as of 18:35, 5 August 2022

Dog breed
Assyrian Mastiff
OriginIraq, Iran, Turkey
Dog (domestic dog)

The Assyrian Mastiff, was a dog landrace native to Northern Iraq. This dog is often used as a livestock guardian against predators and were bred by the Assyrians and Babylonians for lion and wild horse-hunting.

The name is most likely derived from the images of this type of dog that appear in Assyrian and other Mesopotamian reliefs dating from the 10th to 6th century BCE Neo-Assyrian Empire.

File:Assyrian Soldier and Mastiff.jpg
Assyrian Mastiff from Assyrian Wall Relief

Description

In 1886, M.B. Wynn described the ancient Assyrian's clay tablet's depictions of the Assyrian Mastiff:

It is also worthy of remark that the Assyrians were always careful to define long hair when it existed, but in this specimen the stern appears free from any roughness, although so minute are the details that the very fraying at the end of the rope is depicted, the loose skin hangs down the face in enormous wrinkles or folds, and the lips were extremely pendulous evidently, although the mouth is marked by a slit or line in the usual conventional form of Assyrian sculpture. The ears are of medium size, chest very deep, and limbs massive, the head short and of great volumn, and muzzle short and truncated. There is a great similarity between this dog and some of our noted English specimens.

See also

See also

References

  1. ^ Wynn, M.B. (1886). History of The Mastiff - Gathered From Sculpture, Pottery, Carvings, Paintings and Engravings; Also From Various Authors, With Remarks On Same (A Vintage Dog Books Breed Classic). Alcester: Read Books. p. 24. ISBN 9781446548929.
  2. ^ Darwin, Charles (1998). The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed.). Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 17. ISBN 9780801858666.
  3. Gwatkin, R. D. S. (1 March 1933). "Dogs and human migrations". Journal of the South African Veterinary Association. 4 (3): 160. doi:10.10520/AJA00382809_3273.
  4. Mark, Joshua. "Dogs & Their Collars in Ancient Mesopotamia". World History Encyclopedia.
  5. "History". American Molosser Association.
  6. Leighton, Robert (1910). Dogs and All about Them. Cassell, Limited. p. 2.


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