| Henuttawy | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
"Mistress of the Two Lands" | ||||||
 Inner coffin of Henuttawy held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. ©The MET | ||||||
| Dynasty | 21st Dynasty | |||||
| Titles | Chantress of Amun Lady of the House | |||||
| Burial | MMA 59 | |||||
- For other pages by this name, see Henuttawy.
Henuttawy (ancient Egyptian: ḥnw.t-tꜣwy, "Mistress of the Two Lands") was an ancient Egyptian noble woman of the Twenty-first Dynasty during the Third Intermediate Period.
Titles[]
Henuttawy was a Chantress of Amun and Mistress of the House.[1]
Family[]
Henuttawy's family remains unknown, but she appears to have been a regular citizen and not related to the royal family.[2]
Burial[]
Henuttawy was buried in MMA 59 at Deir el-Bahari. The tomb was previously carved for a man named Minmose. Her mummy and coffins were discovered there in 1923-1924 by an expedition led by Herbert E. Winlock. Henuttawy's mummy, coffins and part of the funerary equipment were taken to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Mummy[]
Based on her mummy, Henuttawy died in her early 20s. Her body was not embalmed but simply wrapped in layers of linen bandages.[3] The mummy did not fit the coffin and the feet were damaged when the mummy was forced inside.[4]
References[]
- ↑ "Inner Coffin of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy". The Met Museum.
- ↑ Kitchen 1986, p. 57.
- ↑ "Coffin Set of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy". The Met Museum.
- ↑ Winlock 1924, p. 22-24.
Bibliography[]
- Kitchen, K.A., 1986: The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100–650 BC). Aris & Phillips Limited, Warminster.
- Winlock, H.E., 1924: The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Egyptian Expedition 1923–1924. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, Vol. 19, No. 12.