The Egyptian God Tutu: A Study of the Sphinx-God and Master of Demons with a Corpus of Monuments (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta) - Hardcover

Kaper, Olaf E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9042912170 ISBN 13: 9789042912175

Publisher: Peeters Press, 2003

Synopsis

The god Tutu is known to have existed before the Ptolemaic period in Egypt and is recorded in Greek, Demotic and Roman documents, and featured on a range of monuments and stelae. This book presents a detailed study of Tutu exploring his origins and the development and spread of his cult. Represented as a striding sphinx with a crown of ostrich feathers and a pair of ram's horns, he appears on a number of stelae, as relief decoration and as statues. Here, Kaper devotes chapters to investigating the names and titles of Tutu, exploring his iconography, and presents a definition of his characteristics, his role and place among the pantheon of gods. Kaper traces the development of the cult of Tutu, demonstrating that it was prevalent for more than 800 years and, in the Ptolemaic period, increasingly linked with the god Amun-Re. A catalogue of 185 representations of Tutu is given at the end.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peeters Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9042912170
• ISBN 13: 9789042912175
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 415