大英博物館のインスタグラム(britishmuseum) - 5月29日 17時30分

Don’t be fooled – they may look cute, but these dogs mean business 🐕

In Babylonia and Assyria many devices were used to protect people from evil and disease. Skilled practitioners made objects to be worn, hung up, or even buried, in order to prevent misfortune of any kind.

These miniature clay figures of mastiffs were buried to guard a property from devils and demons. This pack was found beneath a palace doorway at Nineveh – each is named after a quality required in guard dogs:

Loud is his bark! (black dog)
Biter of his foe! (blue dog)
Don't think, bite! (white dog)
Catcher of the enemy! (red dog)
Expeller of evil! (white dog with red spots)

🏛 See these ferocious five on display in Room 55 of the Museum 🐶

🔍 Fired clay dog figurines. North Palace, Nineveh, northern Iraq, about 645 BC.

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