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Tsenhor was born about 550 bce in the city of Thebes (Karnak). She
died some sixty years later, having lived through the reigns of
Amasis II, Psamtik III, Cambyses II, Darius I and perhaps even
Psamtik IV. By carefully retracing the events of her life as they
are recorded in papyri now kept in museums in London, Paris, Turin,
and Vienna, the author creates the image of a proud and independent
businesswoman who made her own decisions in life. If Tsenhor were
alive today she would be wearing jeans, drive a pick-up, and enjoy
a beer with the boys. She clearly was her own boss, and one assumes
that this happened with the full support of her second husband
Psenese, who fathered two of her children. She married him when she
was in her mid-thirties. Like her father and husband, Tsenhor could
be hired to bring offerings to the dead in the necropolis on the
west bank of the Nile. For a fee of course, and that is how her
family acquired high-quality farm land on more than one occasion.
But Tsenhor also did other business on her own, such as buying a
slave and co-financing the reconstruction of a house that she owned
together with Psenese. She seems in many ways to have been a
liberated woman, some 2,500 years before the concept was
invented.Embedded in the history of the first Persian occupation of
Egypt, and using many sources dealing with ordinary women from the
Old Kingdom up to and including the Coptic era, this book aims to
forever change the general view on women in ancient Egypt, which is
far too often based on the lives of Nefertiti, Hatshepsut, and
Cleopatra.
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