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Description : * AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE STELE FOR TUTU
LATE PTOLEMAIC - ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 100 B.C.-100 A.D.
Sculpted in relief in the form of a naos with a cavetto cornice
surmounted with a row of twenty-four stylised uraei supported by two
columns at either end, with the god Tutu depicted as a sphinx walking
to the right, the lean and elongated body with the ribs protruding, the
head turned to face outwards, surrounded by a thick mane-like wig
with a tni crown of rams horns and plumes, the curling tail terminating
with a cobra head, a knife in each paw, a winged solar disc with cobra
above, 27cm x 19.5cm
Provenance:
The Harer Family Trust Collection, acquired in 2007.
Gustave Jequier (1868-1946) Collection, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Thence by descent to his niece.
Published:
O. Kaper, ‘The Egyptian God Tutu: Additions to the Catalogue of
Monuments’ in Chronique d’Égypte, Fasc. 173, Brussels, 2012, no.
S-73, fig. 10.
A rare subject matter, Tutu, meaning ‘he who keep enemies at a
distance’, was an ‘apotropaic god venerated mainly in the Graeco-
Roman Period’: R. Wilkinson, The Complete Gods and Goddesses of
Ancient Egypt, London, 2003, p. 183. For a similar depiction of Tutu
in the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam (inv. 7757), cf. Exhibition
catalogue, L’Egypte Romaine, L’autre Egypt, Musee de Marseilles,
Avignon, 1997, pp. 226-7, no. 245.
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