Kaaper
Kaaper5th Dynasty (around 2500 BCE).[2] Despite his rank not being among the highest, he is well-known due to his famously fine wooden statue.
Career and life
Little is known of Kaaper's life. His titles were lector priest and army scribe of the King, the latter possibly linked to some military campaigns in the Southern Levant.[1]
Discovery
His
Arabic for "Headman of the village") likely because of a certain similarity between the statue and their local elder.[1][2]
Description
The statue – located in the Cairo
rock crystal and small copper plates;[2] it is often cited as an example of the remarkable level of craftmanship and realism achieved during the late 4th Dynasty.[1] From the same mastaba also came a wooden statue of a woman, commonly considered to be Kaaper's wife (CG 33).[1]
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4051-5598-4., pp. 874-5
- ^ ISBN 0-203-44328-4., pp. 86-7
Further reading
- Vandersleyen, Claude I. (1983). "La Date du Cheikh el-Beled". Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. 69: 61–65. S2CID 190065961.
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