Mice as nobles carried by dogs
About the work
Imported from the workbook's Full reassessment sheet, revised 7 October 2026 (record ID 7). The assessment below is the workbook's comparative judgment under its stated criteria; source links and limits are retained.
Workbook assessment: Plausible
Date or witness: Approximately 1292–1077 BCE
Region: Deir el-Medina, Egypt
Workbook date-sort bounds: 1292 BCE to 1077 BCE; these bounds are not automatically invention or disappearance dates.
Description
Turin Suppl.6333 shows dogs carrying a mouse in a sedan chair, another reversal of ordinary animal hierarchy.
Evidence of adoption or transmission
An excavated Deir el-Medina ostracon participates in the repeated animal-human inversion repertoire.
What remains uncertain
Best treated as a variant within 6–11, not independent proof that this exact sedan-chair design spread.
Candidate-index family 8: Animal role reversals in Egyptian artisans’ visual culture
The workbook groups records 6–11 here and rates the family Plausible. This is a research shortlist, not proof of an independently established meme family.
Dated evidence: c.1292–1077 BCE; individual witnesses have narrower dates
Region: Deir el-Medina / Thebes, Egypt
Shortlist uncertainty: One related visual family. Artisans’ settlement context is documented; use, meaning and independent circulation remain partly inferred.
Workbook revision note: Reassessed using grassroots criteria