THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 21ST DYNASTY, CIRCA 1000 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE SHABTI OF QUEEN HENUTTAWY
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 21ST DYNASTY, CIRCA 1000 B.C.
Depicted mummiform, bright blue in color, with details in black, including the eyes and brows, a fillet in her hair and a hoe in each of her fisted hands, with six rows of hieroglyphs, reading: "Instructions of the Osiris, the Divine Adoratress Henut-tawy, She says: 'O these shabty!" and continuing with a form of the standard shabti text from Chapter 6 of The Book of the Dead
5 15/16 in. (15 cm.) high

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First cache, Deir el Bahri, Egypt, 1881 (according to the inscribed base).
with Joel L. Malter, Encino, California, 1979.

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Queen Henuttawy was the daughter of Ramesses XI, the last Pharaoh of the Ramessides Period, and was later the wife of Pinedjem I, a high-priest of Amun and commander-in-chief of the armies of Upper Egypt during the first 15 years of the reign of Smendes, circa 1070-1044 B.C. During the 16th year, Pinudjem assumed royal titles and had his name written in a cartouche, thereby elevating himself to the role of Pharaoh in southern Egypt, with Henuttawy as his queen. Henuttawy continued her powerful lineage with four children, including two high priests of Amun and the next Pharaoh, Psusennes I, who reunified Upper and Lower Egypt.
For more information about Henuttawy see pp. 177 and 389 in Ziegler, Reines d'Egypte: d'Hétephérès à Cléopâtre. For another faience shabti for this queen see no. 77a, pp. 152-153 in Capel and Markoe, eds., Mistress of the House, Mistress of the Heaven: Women in Ancient Egypt.