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The afterlife of Egyptian statues: a cache of religious objects in the temple of Ptah at Karnak
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The relationship of statues to the deities they represent is reflected in the special treatments they were often accorded during and after their primary use and display. In 2014 an unusual favissa—an intentionally hidden cache of religious objects—was discovered in the temple of Ptah at Karnak in Egypt. Such caches are generally poorly documented and difficult to date. The favissa contained numerous fragmentary statuettes and figurines, including 14 representing Osiris, carefully arranged around a larger central statue of Ptah. By comparing this cache with evidence from other Egyptian favissae, a hypothesis is proposed to explain the creation of such caches: the Osirian burial of an artefact, in this case the deposition of the ‘deceased’ statue of the god Ptah and its assimilation with Osiris, the god of rebirth.
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The same form of damage is also common in statue caches or favissae.
“The same form of damage is also common in statue caches or favissae (Valbelle 2016;Charloux et al. 2017;Charloux & Ali Abady Mahmoud 2019).”
From The afterlife of Hatshepsut’s statuary (2025) · cites this paper as Charloux et al. 2017
The Abstract (page unavailable) describes numerous fragmentary statuettes and figurines in a favissa, supporting the occurrence of damage in this cache. It does not identify the 'same form' of damage or establish that it is common across statue caches or favissae. (LLM, conf=0.68)
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The afterlife of Hatshepsut’s statuary
Wong, J. Y. (2025) · Antiquity · doi:10.15184/aqy.2025.64 · Cited by 2
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- Authors
- Charloux, G., Thiers, C., Abd Al-Aziz, M., Ali Abady Mahmoud, M., Boulet, S., Bourse, C., Guadagnini, K., Laroye, J., & ElNasseh, A. M. S.
- Affiliations
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Charloux, Guillaume
- Venue
- Antiquity
- Publisher
- Antiquity Publications
- Published
- 2017-09-20
- Volume
- 91
- Issue
- 359
- Pages
- 1189-1204
- ISSN
- 0003-598X (ISSN-L)
- 1745-1744
- OpenAlex
- W2753950481
- Cited by
- 2
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- shs.hal.science
- Licence
- Locations
- Antiquity (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR11-LABX0032-01, ANR-11-LABX-0032)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Classics › Classical Antiquity Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Keywords
- ancient Egyptian sculpture, Temple of Ptah, Karnak, sacred objects, grave goods, afterlife, ancient Egyptian religion
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