Search Results: Colima Dogs

Statue of a dog holding a cob of maize (corn) in its mouth. c. 100 BCE-300 CE. Associated with the Comala people. From Colima, Mexico. Collection of the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City.

Ceramic sculpture of a reclining dog. Associated with the Comala people. Colima, Mexico. c. 200 BCE-300 CE. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Ceramic sculpture of a snarling dog. Associated with the Comala people. Colima, Mexico. c. 200 BCE-300 CE. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In many Mesoamerican cultures, red or yellow dogs were believed to assist the dead in crossing a river to the Underworld. Earthenware effigies, like this one from Colima, Mexico, depicted these dogs. c. 100 BCE-300 CE. Associated with the...

Red slip effigy of a dog. Made in Colima, Mexico. Aztec culture. 100 BCE-300 CE. Collection of the Walters Art Museum.

The Nimrud Dogs, five canine figurines found at the ancient Mesopotamian city of Nimrud, were only a few of the many startling finds in the region during the 19th century when expeditions were sent to corroborate biblical narratives through...

Dogs have been a part of the history of human beings since before the written word. The ancient temple of Gobekli-Tepe in Turkey, dated to at least 12,000 years BCE, has provided archaeologists with evidence of domesticated dogs in the Middle...

Dogs were highly valued in ancient Rome, as they were in other cultures, and the Roman dog served many of the same purposes as it did in, say, Egypt and Persia - as hunters, guardians, and companions - but with a significant difference in...

Dogs were an integral aspect of the lives of the people of Mesoamerica regardless of their location or culture and, throughout the region, were recognized as liminal beings belonging not only to the natural world and that of humans but to...

Dogs were highly valued in ancient Rome, as they were in other cultures, and the Roman dog served many of the same purposes as it did in, say, Egypt and Persia - as hunters, guardians, and companions - but with a significant difference in...