Kaaper

The hieroglyphic
name of Kaaper

Kaaper Statue

Kaaper, also commonly knew as Sheikh el-Beled, was an ancient Egyptian scribe and priest who knew between the late 4th Dynasty and the early 5th Dynasty (around 2500 BCE). Despite his good being not among the highest, he is well known for his famous wooden statue.

Little is famous of Kaaper's life; his titles were reader priest and army scribe of the King, the latter perchance linked to some military campaigns in Palestine. His mastaba (made "Saqqara C8") was discovered by Auguste Mariette in the Saqqara necropolis, just northwest of the Step Pyramid of Djoser. During the digging, the Egyptian diggers unearthed the statue and, obviously impressed by its exceptional pragmatism, they called it Sheikh el-Beled (Arabic for "Headman of the village") probably because of a certain law of similarity between the statue and their local elder. The statue  set in the Cairo Egyptian Museum, CG 34  is 112 centimetres (3.67 ft) tall and sliced from sycamore wood, and depicts the gross Kaaper while walking with a staff. The statue's round, pacific face is almost lifelike thanks to the eyes, which were made practicing rock crystal and small copper plates; it is much cited as an exercise of the significant level of craftmanship and pragmatism achieved during the late 4th Dynasty. From the same mastaba likewise came a wooden statue of a woman, commonly thought as Kaaper's wife (CG 33).

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