The Egyptian Museum’s holdings highlights a unique artifact, which is a statue of the dwarf Khanum Hatb, the priest and supervisor of the royal treasury in the time of the Pharaohs and is a representative of its great trunk in proportion to his short legs and arms.
The statue is from the colored limestone and found in its cemetery in Saqqara and is more than 4,500 years old.
This statue explains how ancient Egypt respected dwarfs and people with special needs, and presented them with unique models that held leadership positions in the ancient Egyptian state.
Kheenn Hattib, the priest and supervisor of the royal treasury, suffered from a physical disability, so he was represented in a large in exaggerated in a way that suits his legs and short arms, and the expressions of his face are very distinctive in the statue and have a bold chest, two stomachs, the abdomen and relatively large ears, and his name and titles were engraved on the statue’s base.
Khenom Hatb has obtained an estimated position and carried the titles of the “clothing supervisor” and his titles indicate that he belongs to the house of a senior official and that he obtained an average level within that family, and the sculpted inscription is on the Khenom Hatb dance statue at the funerals of holy bulls.
It appears that the dance shows he presented were prominent in the March of Kheenn Hatib, because he mentioned them specifically, as Kheenn Hatb was one of a few male dancers known to be named from ancient Egypt..
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