Queen Kawit
See the beauty, grandeur and precision of detail in the scene of the façade of the Royal Palace. An inscription from the surface of the sarcophagus of one of King Mentuhotep II’s wives in Deir el-Bahari belonging to Queen Kawit.
Kawit is an ancient Egyptian non-ruling queen or king's wife from the Eleventh Dynasty. She was a secondary wife to King Mentuhotep II.
Her tomb (DBXI.9) and a small decorated chapel were found in the Deir el-Bahri temple complex,
Behind the main building of her husband's temple, as well as the tombs of five other women, Ashit, Hehnent, Kamset, Sadeh and Maiet. She and three other women out of the five held the titles of queens, and most of them were priestesses of the goddess Hathor, so it is possible that their burial there was part of the worship of this goddess, but it is also possible that they were the daughters of some nobles and the king wanted to monitor their graves and protect them. .
Her sarcophagus is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (under number: JE 47397).
It depicts the queen with short hair, sitting on a chair, and one of the maids is arranging her hair, while a bartender pours her a drink. On her coffin, the only titles that exist for her are the priestess of the goddess Hathor and the king’s ornament, and her royal titles appear only in a niche, chapel, or shrine designated for praying to her and offering sacrifices. Also in her tomb were found six miniature wax statues depicting Kawit in small wooden coffins, and these may be an early form of the Ushabti.
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