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An Egyptian limestone stele for Tutu

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7 July 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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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

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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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