How about a book about a dancer slave girl in maybe biblical times. She was well loved and recieved many gifts-loke about beautiful and unusual scarf. But she was kidnapped and hidden in a box with cut air holes. As the box was being carried onto a ship,, she heard her master’s voice and stuffed some of the scarf through an airhole. He saw the bit of scarf and saved her. I was remembering “Slave Dancer” or maybe “Dancing Girl” or “Dancing Slave”, maybe?
Lost Classics of Teen Lit: Name That Book! 
I am 99% sure the book you are looking for is
Dancing Girl
by Gladys Malvern
Published 1959. “One of ten rescued from a shipwreck, Claudia, brought up as a dancing girl, becomes the slave of Herod-Daniel in Galilee, soon after the death of John the Baptist. Orphaned Claudia faces her new challenges bravely, relying on the friendship of two Greeks…”
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