Alabaster statuette of Pepy II

Alabaster statuette of Pepy II

The Alabaster statuette of Pepy II, an alabaster statuette of 16 cm high too represents Pepy II as a child, in a pose that is unusual in both royal and interior statuary. The king is squatting on the ground with his legs folded and slightly apart. His left hand was lying on his knee and, although it is missing, his right hand is taken to have been made to the mouth. He is completely naked, a signed of his young age. This statue was observed in the funerary temple of Pepy II at Saqqara South and is start of the appeal of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo