Egyptian faience ushabti of Queen Henuttawy

Egyptian, Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, ca. 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.