A Pale Turquoise Ushabti of the Divine Adoratrix Henuttawy, late 21st/early 22nd Dynasty, circa 980-930 B.C.

holding hoes and seed-sack and wearing a tripartite wig with diadem, the body painted in black with five columns of inscription.

George Anastase Michaelides (1900-1973), Cairo, acquired in the 1930s/1940s
private collection, acquired in London in the 1970s (Christie's, London, October 29th, 2003, no. 178, illus.)

Bonham's, London, April 27th, 2006, no. 23, illus.

Good, upper body slightly worn, face rubbed, small circular casting flaw in corner of proper right eye, small chip on proper right wrist, areas of incrustation especially in interstices and crevices
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For other examples, including one from the Michaelides Collection, cf. J. F. Aubert and L. Aubert, Statuettes égyptiennes, Chaouabtis, Ouchebtis, Paris, 1974, pl. 31, nos. 68-69, and G.Janes, Shabtis: A Private View, Paris, 2002, no. 58.

Glenn Janes writes (op. cit., p. 115): "It has been suggested that Henut-tawy was a daughter of Pinudjem II and his principal wife Iset-em-Khebit... It is... likely that she lived at the very end of the 21st Dynasty and died early in the 22nd as the cemetery in which she was most likely buried is of 22nd Dynasty date. Yoyotte has suggested a sequence for the 'Divine Adoratrices' of the Third Intermediate Period in which Henut-tawy is the predecessor to Mehyt-weskhet who is similarly only known from her shabtis (J. Yoyotte, "Les Adoratrices de la IIIème Période Intermédiaire," Bulletin de la Société française d'égyptologie, vol. 64, 1972, p. 50)."