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The Assyrian Mastiff, is 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.
History
It is assumed the Assyrian mastiff have their ancestors in the region between India and Persia where they were domesticated and used as hunting dogs. Several mastiff type figures were discovered with carved-in names such as 'Consume his life', 'Don't stop to think, bite', 'or 'Catcher of the hostile one' were discovered of the Assyrian era around 2000 BC. More Assyrian relics depicting dogs can be found from between 1000 to 650 BC.
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:
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
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- 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.
- Mark, Joshua. "Dogs & Their Collars in Ancient Mesopotamia". World History Encyclopedia.
- "History". American Molosser Association.
- Leighton, Robert (1910). Dogs and All about Them. Cassell, Limited. p. 2.
- ^ "Mastiff Types". Canine Heritage. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
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