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— block statue, London, British Museum, EA 1459
— brick, London, Petrie Museum, UC69964
— brick, Berlin, Agyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, AM 15704
— brick, Philadelphia, Penn Museum, 29-86-717
— relief fragment, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1972.651
— offering table, Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 27987 + Philadelphia, Penn Mu¬
seum, 29-87-474 + Luxor fragment
— shabti, present location is unknown
Functional titles: wb3 nswt
wb3 nswt w°b ©. wj
jrj- tn pr Wrt-hk3w
Sn wbwn Wrt-hk3w
Sn wb.w
The wb3 nswt ‘royal wb3" Sarenenutet Tjaui most likely served under the reign of Amen¬
hotep III and his burial place was also in the Theban necropolis, similarly to his brother,
Neferrenpet (I) discussed above. The date of his service is based on the stylistic and
philological criteria of his monuments,*” however, some scholars mistakenly dated his
activity to the 19" dynasty.4”* Nevertheless, Gessler-Léhr remarks that in regard to their
form and content, the monuments of Sarenenutet Tjaui do not follow conventions but
represent original solutions, which also supports a dating under the reign of Amenho¬
tep III, a period in which several innovations were introduced in various areas of art.*”
Similarly to his brother, Neferrenpet (1), Sarenenutet Tjaui also had a sistophor inter¬
mediary statue which was found in the mortuary temple of Mentuhotep II at Deir
el-Bahari’”, which is now located in London (BM EA 1459). In contrast to the statue of
Neferrenpet (1), in the hand of which the instrument itself was attached, the black gran¬
ite block statue of Sarenenutet Tjaui represents the symbol of Hathor — in this case the
head of the goddess — at the front, as the sistophor statues usually do.*” The head of the
owner is missing, unfortunately, but the menat appears in his left hand, just as on the
statue of his brother. The inscription addresses Sarenenutet Tjaui as jhjj ‘sistrum player”
#7 Drioton, 1933, 2, n. 2, 20-22; Gessler-Lôhr, 1990, 61-63, 70; Kozloff — Bryan, 1992, 284.
4% Daressy, 1916, 57; Porter — Moss, 1972, 259, 395; Schulman, 1986, 201; Pinch, 1993, 172.
49 Gessler-Lôhr, 1990, 66-67, 70.
5% Porter — Moss, 1972, 395; Pinch, 1993, 172; Clère, 1995, 200-207.
> Clère, 1970, 1-3. For the sistophor statues of ‘royal wb3s’, see also note 481. in the discussion on Sen¬
nefer above.