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Ostracon of a boy (indiicated by the sidelock of youth) training a captive baboon, on all fours, before him with a short stick. This is interpreted as part of the domestication of wild baboon. In the upper right of scene are two crows chattering over an egg. From Thebes and dating to the New Kingdom.

 


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