Nakhtubasterau was one of the wives known for Pharaoh Amasis II.[3] She is known from astela from theSerapeum of Saqqara. She held the titlesking's wife, his beloved,great one of the hetes sceptre andgreat of praises.[1]
She was the mother of two sons:
Pasenenkhonsu, the king's son who donated the Serapeum stela.
Nakhtubasterau was buried inGiza in a rock-cut tomb now numbered G 9550. Her anthropoid black granite sarcophagus is now inSaint Petersburg (767).[1] She was buried with her son Ahmose – sometimes called Amasis – who was a general.[4] The name of the cat-goddessBastet was chiseled out of Nakhtubasterau's sarcophagus.[5]
^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.
