Henuttawy’s tomb in the Valley of the Queens, QV73, is not far from those of other members of Ramesses’s family (QV68 – Meritamen, QV71 – Bintanath, QV75 – Henutmire); it is between the tombs of her elder half-sister Bintanath and the 20th dynasty queen Duatentopet (QV74).
Tomb QV73 has a burial chamber with two pillars and two side rooms. The decorations resemble those in Nefertari’s tomb. The tomb may have been carved for a generic princess and was adapted for her after Henuttawy’s death. In some areas of the tomb, the cartouches are blank, but faint traces of her name have been recorded in the main burial chamber.
Henuttawy
Henuttawy (“Mistress of the Two Lands”) was an ancient Egyptian princess of the 19th Dynasty.
Biography
Henuttawy was the daughter of Pharaoh Ramesses II, the Great Royal Wife Nefertari, and half-sister of Merneptah. She is seventh on the list of Ramesses’s daughters and the second of two daughters whose mother is sure to have been Nefertari.
Her statue stands in the small Abu Simbel temple, built for Nefertari. The children of Nefertari are usually identified based on this temple: the princes Amunherkhepeshef, Pareherwenemef, Meryre and Meryatum and the princesses Meritamen and Henuttawy. Henuttawy is not depicted on the facade of the large Abu Simbel temple, where the first two sons and the six eldest daughters of Ramesses are shown, along with Nefertari and Queen Mother Tuya.
