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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. 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]