Mrs Tsenhor

Tsenhor was born about 550 BCE in the city of Thebes (Karnak). The author creates the image of a proud and independent businesswoman who made her own decisions in life. 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. When Tsenhor decided to divide her inheritance, her son and daughter each received an equal share. Even the papyri proving her children's rights to her inheritance were cut to equal size. Tsenhor seems in many ways to have been a liberated woman.