The dog is probably a weird version of Anubis? Anubis always wears the double crown, at any rate.
Yeah. I thought at first it was a weird version of Taweret because it was faience-blue and not exactly like a dog, but that really didn't seem right. I just realized it might also be the Set animal—which is not usually human-headed, but the odd tufted tail at an angle would be correct. Given how Sargent handled the Near Eastern gods in general, he might have mashed more than one of these options together.
The pharoah's retinue also contains a perfectly ordinary vulture. Not a cobra, so far as I could tell; that was for Ištar.
I checked the BPL website to see if they said, and they didn't; what they did say was that Flaubert was explicitly Sargent's source for the Carthaginian stuff, so nice eye.
Oh, cool. Thank you for letting me know. I may have once read Salammbô just to see what happened. (What happened: I hurt myself slightly.)
From divagations into obscure portions of the net, I can say with some certainty that castrato is indeed a gender identity that exists today, and also that you probably do not want to know the details.
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Yeah. I thought at first it was a weird version of Taweret because it was faience-blue and not exactly like a dog, but that really didn't seem right. I just realized it might also be the Set animal—which is not usually human-headed, but the odd tufted tail at an angle would be correct. Given how Sargent handled the Near Eastern gods in general, he might have mashed more than one of these options together.
The pharoah's retinue also contains a perfectly ordinary vulture. Not a cobra, so far as I could tell; that was for Ištar.
I checked the BPL website to see if they said, and they didn't; what they did say was that Flaubert was explicitly Sargent's source for the Carthaginian stuff, so nice eye.
Oh, cool. Thank you for letting me know. I may have once read Salammbô just to see what happened. (What happened: I hurt myself slightly.)
From divagations into obscure portions of the net, I can say with some certainty that castrato is indeed a gender identity that exists today, and also that you probably do not want to know the details.
Edited to reflect. Thank you!