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Descripción : * 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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