Nakhtubasterau

Nakhtubasterau (Nakhtbastetiru) was the Great Royal Wife of Amasis II. She dates to the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt. Her name honors Bastet.

Biography

Nakhtubasterau was one of the wives known for Pharaoh Amasis II. She is known from a stela from the Serapeum. She held the titles king's wife, his beloved, great one of the hetes sceptre and great of praises.

She was the mother of two sons:

• Pasenenkhonsu, the king's son who donated the Serapeum stela.
• General Ahmose (D), who was buried in Giza.

• ^ Dodson, Aidan and Hilton, Dyan. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. 2004. ISBN 0-500-05128-3
• Grajetzki, Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary, Golden House Publications, London, 2005, ISBN 978-0-9547218-9-3

Burial

Nakhtubasterau was buried in Giza in a rock-cut tomb now numbered G 9550. Her anthropoid black granite sarcophagus is now in Saint Petersburg (767). She was buried with her son Ahmose - sometimes called Amasis - who was a general. The name of the cat-goddess Bastet was chiseled out of Nakhtubasterau's sarcophagus.