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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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Biography

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:

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). [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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References

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  3. 1 2 Dodson, Aidan and Hilton, Dyan. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. 2004. ISBN   0-500-05128-3
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  5. Lepsius, Denkmahler, Textbande 1, pg 98 Online at the University of Halle