Takabuti

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Takabuti was a married woman who reached an age of between twenty and thirty years. She lived in the Egyptian city of Thebes at the end of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt. Her mummified body and mummy case are in the Ulster Museum, Belfast.

The coffin was opened and the mummy unrolled on 27 January 1835 in Belfast Natural History Society’s museum at College Square North. Edward Hincks, a leading Egyptologist from Ireland, was present and deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphs which revealed that she was a noblewoman and the mistress of a great house. Her mother’s name was Tasenirit and her father was Nespare, a priest of Amun. She was buried in a cemetery west of Thebes. It was initially suggested that Takabuti was murdered due to knife wounds found on her body. During this investigation, Takabuti's mtDNA was tested and determined to be mitochondrial haplogroup H4a1, described as "a predominantly European haplogroup", and indicative of "European heritage". In the archaeological record H4a1 has been reported in Cardial Neolithic remains from Spain and Portugal dating from c. 5300 BC, in 6th to 14th century CE Guanche remains from the Canary Islands,[9] in remains from Bell Beaker and Unetice contexts (2500–1575 BCE) in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, and in an individual from early Bronze Age Bulgaria. The H4a1 variant possessed by Takabuti is relatively rare in modern populations, with a modern distribution including ~ 2% of a southern Iberian population, ~ 1% in a Lebanese population and ~ 1.5% of multiple Canary Island populations.

Analysis of Takabuti's well-preserved hair found that it was naturally auburn in colour.