The Egyptian God Tutu: A Study of the Sphinx-God and Master of Demons with a Corpus of Monuments: 119 (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta) - Hardcover

Kaper, O.E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9042912170 ISBN 13: 9789042912175

Verlag: Peeters Publishers, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Tutu (Tithoes) was a popular god in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods of Egyptian history, with his origins in the earlier Egyptian religious tradition. The god provided protection against demons, and his appearance as a striding sphinx was often combined with symbols of his power and visual references to demons and other divinities. The god Tutu demonstrates the continuing vitality of the pharaonic religion under the pressure of foreign cultures and ideas. This monograph provides the first comprehensive study of the god Tutu. It is based upon a collection of attestations, largely unpublished, which derive from monuments in various parts of Egypt and from museum collections all over the world. Moreover, the results of recent archaeological field work in Shenhur and in the temple of Tutu in the Dakhla Oasis have been included in full. The catalogue of monuments is accompanied by an analysis of the god Tutu, his iconography and his place in the Egyptian religion.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Peeters Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9042912170
• ISBN 13: 9789042912175
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 415
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar