cache

(noun)

A store of things that may be required in the future, such as food, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way.

Examples of cache in the following topics:

  • The Todaiji

    • This last structure is of great importance as an art-historical cache, because in it are stored the utensils that were used in the temple's dedication ceremony in 752 and the eye-opening ritual for the Rushana image, as well as government documents and many secular objects owned by the Imperial family.

  • Woodlands in the East

    • The majority of the information known about the SECC is derived from examination of the elaborate artworks left behind by its participants, including pottery, shell gorgets and cups, stone statuary, copper plates such as the Wulfing cache and long-nosed god maskettes.
    • The left hand figure is Wulfing plate A, one of Wulfing cache from Malden, Missouri.

  • Akhenaton and the Amarna Period

    • In 1887, a local woman uncovered a cache of over 300 tablets recording select diplomatic correspondence of the Pharaoh.

  • Tutankhamun and Ramses II

    • After his death he was buried in a tomb in the Valley of the Kings; his body was later moved to a royal cache, where it was discovered in 1881.

  • Sculpture of the Igbo-Ukwu

    • Subsequent excavations by Thurston Shaw in 1959 resulted in the discovery of two other sites: Igbo Richard, a burial chamber, and Igbo Jonah, thought to be a cache.

  • Architecture of the New Kingdom

    • After his death, he was buried in a tomb in the Valley of the Kings; his body was later moved to a royal cache, where it was discovered in 1881.