An Egyptian Turquoise-Blue glazed composition Shabti of the Devine Adoratrice Henutaui
Period Dynasty XXI, circa 940 B.C.
Dimensions Height: 15.4cm
Description
Her title and name contained within a cartouche bearing six lines of text from chapter 6 of the ‘Book of the Dead.
Provenance
From the private collection of George Anastase Michaelides (1900-1973) and legally exported from Egypt in the 1940s
From the 1845 cache in the Ramesseum, Thebes.
Henutaui, daughter of Pinudjem II & Isetemkhebi, successor of Maatkare, was a Princess in the Royal Family at Thebes.
She held the highest position a woman could hold in the temple of Amun at Karnak.
