Shawabty of Divine Adoratrice Henuttawy
Place made:
Culture: Egyptian
Period: Third Intermediate period
Dynasty: Dynasty 21
Date: ca. 1075-945 B.C.
Medium: Faience
Dimensions:
h. 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)
Credit Line: Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection
Object number: 86.138.160
Inscribed: Five rows of text, written right to left, around the body:
Line 1:
sHD wsir Hnwt-tAwy dwAt-nTr Dd.s i.Sbty iptn
The illuminated one, Henuttawy, the Divine Adoratrice, she says: O these shabtys,
Line 2:
ir ip.t(w) Hsb wsir Hnwt-tAwy dwAt-nTr mAa-xrw r irt irr
if one counts and reckons the Osiris, Henuttawy, justified, to do…
Line 3:
im n Xrt-nTr ist Hw sDbw r Xr.s ipn r nw
there in the necropolis, now indeed obstacles at these, her duties at <any> time
Line 4:
irt im r srwD sxt r smHy wDbw
to serve there, to cultivate the fields, to irrigate the riparian lands,
Line 5:
r Xnt Say imntt <r> iAbtt Ts pXr
to transport by boat the sand of the east to the west and vice versa…
Base:
Hnwt-tAwy dwAt-nTr
Henuttawy, the Divine Adoratrice
[trans. S. Schellinger, 2018]
Provenance: by purchase, the Stark family, Orange, Texas, between 1927 and 1929; by bequest, the Nelda C. and H. J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1965; by purchase, the San Antonio Museum of Art with funding from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Willson, 1986
Published References
C. C. Van Siclen, III, An Illustrated Checklist for Mummies, Myths and Magic (San Antonio: Van Siclen Books, 1990), p. 32, no. 6.
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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