Tuphium

TUPHIUM (El-Tôd) Egypt.

On the E bank of the Nile, 20 km S of Thebes. The Asiatic Deposit, now in the Cairo Museum, was found here in the foundation of the temple. The ruins of the temple consist today of a naos built by Sesostris I, a pronaos dedicated by Euergites II to the falcon god Mont; and a Roman court with four columns, a small central hall, and a chapel, all three of which were dedicated by Antoninus Pius to the goddess Tenenet.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Porter & Moss, Top. Bibl., V. Upper Egypt: Sites (1937) 167-69; F. Bisson de la Roque, Trésor de Tod (1950; 1953); E. Brunner-Traut & V. Hell, Aegypten (1966) 626.

S. SHENOUDA