Luxor statue cache

Seated Goddess Hathor statue.

The Luxor statue cache (also known as the Dush Treasure) is a grouping of Ancient Egyptian statues unearthed in 1989. They were discovered in Luxor, beneath the solar court of the 18th dynasty Pharaoh Amenhotep III.

Partial list of statues

Seated Goddess Hathor statue.

• Thutmosis III as sphinx, alabaster, 1.095 metres (3 ft 7 in)
• Amenhotep III, standing, red quartzite, 2.49 metres (8 ft 2 in)
• the goddess Iunyt, seated, grey granite 1.45 metres (4 ft 9 in)
• Tutankhamun as sphinx, alabaster (with paint remains) 0.56 metres (1 ft 10 in)
• Horemheb, kneeling holding offering pots, diorite 1.91 metres (6 ft 3 in)
• Amun-Re-Kamutef serpent, grey granite 1.52 metres (5 ft 0 in)
• Amun-Re-Kamutef serpent, grey granite 1.00 metre (3 ft 3 in)
• Goddess Taweret, sandstone, 0.61 metres (2 ft 0 in)

History of find

The excavation was launched in 1989 under the authority of Mahammed el-Saghir, with routine maintenance by the Luxor antiquities inspectorate. The Luxor cache was buried during the Roman conversion of the area into a military camp. Originally five statues were found at a three foot depth below a covering layer of small stones; eventually 26 statues were uncovered with some being damaged prior to burial.

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  Amenhotep III, standing upon Sled, (of God Tem, oldest creator god-(Atum))
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  Horemheb kneeling

References

• Reeves, Nicholas (2000). "The Luxor Statue Cache". Ancient Egypt, The Great Discoveries, a Year-by-Year Chronicle. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd. pp. 226–228. ISBN 0-500-05105-4.