AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE PLAQUE OF TUTU, EARLY PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.

AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE PLAQUE OF TUTU
EARLY PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.
11 ½ in. (29 cm.) long

Provenance
with Khalil Rabenou (1906-1961), New York, prior to 1960.
A Charitable Trust; Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 18 June 1991, lot 51.

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM KELLY SIMPSON

Literature
S. Sauneron, "Le nouveau sphinx composite du Brooklyn Museum et le role du dieu Touton-Tithoes," in Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 19, no. 4, 1960, pl. XIII.
B. Bothmer, Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period, Brooklyn, 1960, p. 181, no. 13, figs. 347-349.
O.F. Kaper, The Egyptian God of Tutu: A Study of The Sphinx-god and Master of Demons with a Corpus of Monuments, Ann Arbor, 2003, p. 304, no. S-8.

Exhibited
The Brooklyn Museum, Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period, 1960-1961.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 2 February 1997-28 June 2004 (Loan no. L-R.42.1997).