User:Tepegawra

"Tepe Gawra" is the presumably Turkish name of an archaeological site, across the river from present day Mosul in present day Iraq, where during the 1930s expeditions from the University of Pennsylvania excavated pre-Sumerian ruins in which were found - among many other things - a small number of steatite seals with images of sighthounds and their quarry. The sighthounds on those images are by actual measurement indistinguishable from those now living in the same area and designated by the Arabic name "saluqi" [1] (Kurdish "tazi"). Those seals date from approximately 4,000 BCE and may be the oldest known documentation of a specifically identifiable hound type (opinions on that point naturally vary <G>).