Thinking of acquiring a new dog? In a past blog, I helpfully provided you with suggestions for what to name it, based on a medieval hunting manual. Today, I provide you with further suggestions, this time based on what ancient Egyptians named their dogs.

Here is a list*:

Good Herdsman

Reliable

Blackie

One Who is Fashioned as an Arrow

First, Second, Third, Fourth, (etcetera)

Grabber

Cook-pot

She of the Town

Useless

I’m wondering if some of these lost a bit of pizzazz in translation.

source: Guillaume Blanchard, via Wikimedia

*from Mary Elizabeth Thurston, The Lost History of the Canine Race, Andrews and McMeel, 1996, page 29