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Thutmose III Statues

Greywacke statue of Thutmose III (1479-1425 BC) from Karnak area. The 90cm statue was discovered in the Karnak in 1904.
The statue is of a exceptionally advanced standard and has a soft superior that makes it appear very human. He is standing with his left foot ahead and is holding symbols of authority. He is bearing the Nemes head-dress and it has a Uraeus and royal byssus. He is as well wearing a kilt, and a bang with his name in a cartouche. The face presents Thutmose as forever young. The Karnak Cachette is the greatest ever find of statues going out from Early Dynastic to the Greco-Roman time period. Georges Legrain, working under the oversight of Gaston Maspero excavated the cachette in 1904 by opportunity in the Courtyard of the Karnak temple at Luxor (ancient Thebes). The assures included the famous statue Tutankhamun as the god Khonsu. This half statue one time represented a standing triad of king Thutmose III with the gods Mut and Amun. The king (center) wears a shortly shendyt kilt and an particular broad collar. Small cartouches marked with his royal names decorate the belt plugging the dagger at his shank. Each of the king's arms embraces the god flanking his slope. This great statue of Thutmose III wearing the White Crown was excavated at the temple of the solar god and god of war, Montu at Medamud the ancient Madu. This king is represented in a position of adoration and an inscription on the back column describes him as (the beloved of Montu Lord of Madu). The statue's position in the ground stimulated major deterioration on its left face. Sufficient remains on the right face to demontrate that this was a superior work of sculpture in the developed style regular during the later years of the Thutmose III rule.  
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