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Pepy II became fromally king of Egypt at around the age of 6.
The first years he had to sit in his mother's leap before he cuould fit the throne.
When he did he reign for 94(!) years according to Manetho but 64 is a plau-sible figure that scientists have favoured.
The stauette in from the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York. It relates to the myth of Osiris when his son Horus sis on the lap of his mother Isis.
Greeks and Romans foll-owed this sceme ending with the Christians and mother Mary with Jesus.
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