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- Title
The afterlife of Egyptian statues: a cache of religious objects in the temple of Ptah at Karnak.
- Authors
Charloux, Guillaume; Thiers, Christophe; Abd Al-Aziz, Mohammad; Ali Abady Mahmoud, Mona; Boulet, Stéphanie; Bourse, Camille; Guadagnini, Kevin; Laroye, Juliette; ElNasseh, Ahmed Mohammed Sayed
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
KARNAK (Egypt); EGYPT; PTAH (Egyptian deity); RELIGIOUS articles; OSIRIS (Egyptian deity) in art; EGYPTIAN gods in art; EGYPTIAN antiquities; TEMPLES; EGYPTIAN religion -- 640-
- Publication
Antiquity, 2017, Vol 91, Issue 359, p1189
- ISSN
0003-598X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15184/aqy.2017.137