Caper

Kaaper in hieroglyphics
Proper name	Kaaper (Ka aper) k3 ʿpr
1st title	Cheri-habet-heri-tep ẖrj-ḥ3b-ḥr.j-tp Highest reading priest
Wooden statue of the caaper (detail), Cairo Egyptian Museum (CG 34)

Kaaper is the name of an ancient Egyptian official in the transition period from the fourth to the fifth dynasty in the Old Kingdom .

identity

Kaaper was the grandson of Princess Wenschet . A wooden statue of his wife, whose name has not been passed down, was found in his grave .

Kaaper ruled very probably under the kings ( pharaohs ) Mykerinos to Userkaf . Among other things, he carried high-ranking titles such as "Son of the King" ( Sa-nesut ; but only as a purely functional title, Kaaper was not a real prince ), " Supreme reading priest " ( Cheri-habet-heri-tep ) and "Clerk of the royal army " . Kaaper became famous for an almost life-size standing statue made of fine sycamore wood . She is still jokingly called "Sheikh el-Beled" because of her facial features to the then mayorof the place of the same name. The wooden bust of his wife was also made of sycamore wood.

dig

Kaaper was buried together with his wife in the brick mastaba C8 in the official necropolis of Saqqara .

literature

• Michael Rice: Who's Who in Ancient Egypt . Routledge, London 1999, ISBN 0415154480 , pp. 86 & 87.
• Alessia Amenta, Araldo De Luca (authors); Alessandro Bongioanni (Ed.): Egyptian Museum Cairo . 2nd edition, National Geographic DE, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3934385818 , p. 72.
• Erika Feucht: The child in ancient Egypt: the position of the child in the family and society according to ancient Egyptian texts and representations . Campus, Berlin 1995, ISBN 359335277X , p. 454.
• Margaret Bunson: Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt . Infobase Publishing, New York 2009, ISBN 1438109970 , pp. 189 & 190.
• Abeer El-Shahawy, Farid S. Atiya: The Egyptian Museum in Cairo: A Walk Through the Alleys of Ancient Egypt . American Univ. in Cairo Press, Cairo 2005, ISBN 9771721836 , p. 79.