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

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. 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 w