Nakhtubasterau

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 in hieroglyphs
[1] Nḫt-bꜣstt-r.w
Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Amasis II

Sarcophagus of Nakhtubasterau

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:

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