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Nakhtubasterau (Nakhtbastetiru) was the Great Royal Wife of Amasis II. She dates to the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt. [2] Her name honors Bastet.
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Nakhtubasterau (Nakhtbastetiru) was the Great Royal Wife of Amasis II. She dates to the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt. [2] Her name honors Bastet.
Nakhtubasterau was one of the wives known for Pharaoh Amasis II. [3] 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. [1]
She was the mother of two sons:
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). [1] She was buried with her son Ahmose – sometimes called Amasis – who was a general. [4] The name of the cat-goddess Bastet was chiseled out of Nakhtubasterau's sarcophagus. [5]
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