Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt: animals shown on
ivory objects and palettes
(after: Boessneck
1988: 29)
- elephant/loxodonta africana
- wild donkey/asinus africanus africanus
- Persian fallow deer/dama mesopotamica
- giraffe/giraffa camelopardalis
- oryx/oryx gazella dammah
- bubal hartebeest/alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus (became extinct)
- dorcas gazelle/gazella dorcas
- Nubian ibex/capra ibex nubiana
- barbary sheep/ammotragus lervia/wild aurochs/bos primigenius
- golden jackal/canis aureus lupaster
- dog/canis familiaris
- wild dog/lycaon pictus
- striped hyaena/hyaena hyaena
- lion/panthera leo
- North African crested porcupine /hystrix cristata
- cape or brown hare/lepus capensis
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