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Statuette of Khufu
Dr Campbell Price describes the unique statuette of one of Egypt’s most famous pharaohs.
Among great builders known from pharaonic Egypt, few can rival the king responsible for the construction of the last surviving ancient wonder of the world: the Great Pyramid of Giza. It is therefore perhaps surprising that Khufu (‘Cheops’ to the Greeks) is represented by so little surviving statuary. While various fragments of stone sculpture bear his name, the only complete work in existence that can be attributed to him based on an inscription (his Horus name, Medjedu) was discovered during excavations by the Egypt Exploration Society at Abydos in 1902.
An archive image of a small ivory statuette of Pharaoh Khufu, second king of the Fourth Dynasty. The statuette was found at Abydo
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