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Description
El-Ahaiwah palette
Berkeley, Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology, 6-19071
El Ahaiwah, l. cm 40 (schist) [Note: this photo is mirrored]
(Naqada II)

Bibliography
J. L. de Cenival, La Protostoria, in: I Faraoni. Il Tempo delle Piramidi, 1978 [p. 55, fig. 61, "dog"]
J. Baines, Symbolic roles of canine figures on Early Monuments, in: Archéo-Nil 3, 1993, 57-74
P. F. Houlian, The Animal World of Pharaohs, London 1996 [fig. 58, "jackal"]
J.O. Gransard-Desmond, Les Canidae de la Prehistoire a la Iere Dynastie en Egypte et en Nubie, 1999, (Corpus n. 68)
J. O. Gransard-Desmond, Histoire du chien en Egypte, CCdE 3/4, 2002, 51ff. [p. 66f., fig. 4 "fox"]

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