Nakhtubasterau

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

Nakhtubasterau (Nakhtbastetiru) was the Great Royal Wife of Amasis II. She dates to the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt.^[2] Her name honors Bastet.

Biography

Nakhtubasterau was one of the wives known for Pharaoh Amasis II.^[3] 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.^[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]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Grajetzki, Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary, Golden House Publications, London, 2005, ISBN 978-0954721893
2. ^ Tyldesley, Joyce. Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt. Thames & Hudson. 2006. ISBN 0-500-05145-3
3. ^ ^{a b} Dodson, Aidan and Hilton, Dyan. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. 2004. ISBN 0-500-05128-3
4. ^ 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.
5. ^ Lepsius, Denkmahler, Textbande 1, pg 98 Online at the University of Halle