Earth and Water
Earth and Water
Tsenhor, Ruru, and Nesamunhotep, 497–491 BCE
In 497 BCE Tsenhor’s daughter Ruru concludes a contract for her services as a choachyte, which probably means that she had taken over her mother’s business. Tsenhor would be well into her fifties by now, and probably much too weak to service all the mummies in the Theban necropolis by herself, even though in 491 BCE Tsenhor still receives a choachyte’s share from her (half) brother Nesamunhotep. With an excursus on two papyri from the Louvre which appear to belong to Tsenhor’s archive.
Keywords: Choachytes, Necropolis, Thebes, Archive
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