Saluki Hound in Arts:
Saluki was among the many hunting methods and techniques used and followed: Saluki was then used in chasing small animals like wild rabbits, jerboas, deer and other types of gazelles, also hunting when accompanied with falcons whereas the falcon is trained on the prey with the saluki.
(Al-Bynsis Manuscript) : this is a marine manuscript maintained in its origin in Al-Jazzar Library and refers to the Eighteenth Century.

(Byzantine Manuscript) : refers to the tenth or eleventh century and contains a decorated picture of a man holding a stick and with him a saluki hound chasing many wild rabbits and in his hand a falcon.

(A silver Byzantine Dish decorated with pictures in Hermitage in Leningrad) for hunters chasing deer and gazelle using salukis during the first thousand AD Century.

(Victoria & Albert Museum – London): a Fourteenth century portrait of hunting a gazelle, some wild rabbits using the saluki hound.

(Victoria & Albert Museum – London): a picture of Prince Yousef by an unknown artist while such prince is riding his horse and going for hunting accompanied with his saluki and in his hand there is a falcon.

From other sources which are still dating about the Saluki and in being a very ancient hound, as among other types of dogs:

At London University Professor Bross Angham has made many historical researches.

At Cambridge University in London there is a department concerned in the Historical Orient Studies where it contains a skeleton of a Saluki.

At Chicago University in USA and in the Department of Oriental Studies – Professor Steon Loid has found a skeleton of a Saluki from the Somers age about 2600 B.C.

At Pennsylvania University and in its museum there are stamps which contain pictures of Salukis referring to nearly 4000B.C.
Also, there is a skeleton of a Saluki referring to 3500 B.C.

Also, at Bahrain Museum , there are many cemeteries from the Delmon Age and there is a tomb of a man with his Saluki 200 B.C.

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