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Nakhtubasterau

Wife of 26th-Dynasty pharoah Amasis II

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title	Nakhtubasterau
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name transcription	Nḫt-bꜣstt-r.w
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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 of Saqqara. 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.

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.

References

[[Joyce Tyldesley. Tyldesley, Joyce]]. ''Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt''. Thames & Hudson. (2006). {{ISBN. 0-500-05145-3.
[[Aidan Dodson. Dodson, Aidan]] and Hilton, Dyan. ''The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt''. Thames & Hudson. (2004). {{ISBN. 0-500-05128-3.
[[Wolfram Grajetzki. Grajetzki]], ''Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary'', Golden House Publications, London, (2005), {{ISBN. 978-0-9547218-9-3.
Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L.B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings 3: Memphis (Abû Rawâsh to Dahshûr). Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1931. 2nd edition. 3: Memphis, Part 1 (Abû Rawâsh to Abûsîr), revised and augmented by Jaromír Málek. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, (1974), pp. 289-290, plan 3.
Lepsius, Denkmahler, Textbande 1, pg. 98. [https://edoc3.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/lepsius/textb.html Online at the University of Halle]

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