Nakhtubasterau (Nakhtbastetiru) was the Great Royal Wife of Amasis II. She dates to the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt.Tyldesley, Joyce. Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt. Thames & Hudson. (2006). . Her name honors Bastet.
Biography Nakhtubasterau was one of the wives known for Pharaoh Amasis II.Dodson, Aidan and Hilton, Dyan. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. (2004). . 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.Grajetzki, Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary, Golden House Publications, London, (2005), .
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.
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). She was buried with her son Ahmose – sometimes called Amasis – who was a general.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. The name of the cat-goddess Bastet was chiseled out of Nakhtubasterau's sarcophagus.Lepsius, Denkmahler, Textbande 1, pg. 98. Online at the University of Halle
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