| Object Number |
65-34-1 |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Culture |
Roman |
| Provenience |
Egypt |
| Period |
Roman Period |
| Date Made |
30 BCE - 624 CE |
| Section |
Egyptian |
| Materials |
Limestone |
| Technique |
Raised Relief |
| Iconography |
Tutu | scorpion | knife | lion |
| Description |
Limestone votive stela depicting the composite deity Tutu in raised relief. He wears a nemes headdress, horns and a solar disk. His paws grasp knives and scorpions. |
| Height |
26.7 cm |
| Width |
35.6 cm |
| Credit Line |
Purchased from World Antiquities Ltd., 1965 |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
| Ousterhout, Robert G., Grant Frame, and Michael Freeman. Magic in the Ancient World. Philadelphia: 2016. Page/Fig./Plate: 4,9 |
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| Wegner, Josef W., and Jennifer H. Wegner. The Sphinx That Traveled To Philadelphia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Page/Fig./Plate: 239 Page/Fig./Plate: 167/7.52 |
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| Silverman, David P. Searching for Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Cornell University Press, 1997. Page/Fig./Plate: 82-83 |
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| The Artifacts of Ancient Egypt. National Museum of History, Republic of China, 1985. Page/Fig./Plate: 77 |
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| Kaper, Olaf E. The Egyptian God Tutu: a study of the sphinx-god and master of demons with a corpus of monuments. Leuven: Peeters, 2003. See: |
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