Two Roman terracotta dogs
Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.
Comprising a hollow formed terracotta dog seated on a plinth on its hind legs, with compact rotund body, alert ears and short snout; and a Romano-Egyptian terracotta Sothic dog with shaggy coat and curled tail, 12.5cm and 8cm high respectively (2)注脚Provenance:
Dog on plinth: Anonymous sale; Bonhams, 20 May 1992, lot 188 (part).
Desmond Morris collection, Oxford, acquired at the above sale.
Sothic dog: Desmond Morris collection, Oxford, acquired in the 1990s.

The Sothic dog of Isis was connected with the dog star, Sirius, and associated with the New Year and the annual inundation of the Nile. The British Museum has a similar Sothic dog of Isis, acc. no. 1972,0125.5.