Nehmes Bastet

Nehmes Bastet was a priestess and held the office of "chantress" in Ancient Egypt. She lived during the Twenty-second Dynasty (approximately 945–712 BC) and was buried in the Valley of the Kings. She was the daughter of the high priest of Amun.[1] Her tomb is designated as (KV64).[2] It was excavated in 2012 and discovered to be a reuse of a tomb for the burial of a woman of an earlier dynasty, whose name, as yet, is unknown.

According to an inscription on her coffin, she was the daughter of Nakhtefmut, the high priest of Amun who held the office of "the Opener of the Doors of Heaven" at Karnak, an important temple during that dynasty. A wooden stela that accompanied her burial depicts Nehemesbastet worshiping before a composite deity with attributes of both a sun-god and the god Osiris.[3][4]

The site of her burial had been identified as a likely tomb location in 2000, by the Amarna Royal Tombs Project (ARTP), but not excavated.[2] On 25 January 2011, the upper edge of the tomb was discovered and the tomb was excavated and described by Dr. Susanne Bickel and Dr. Elina Paulin-Grothe, a team from University of Basel in Switzerland.[5][6][7]

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References
  1. "Egyptian tomb holds singer Nehmes Bastet's remains". BBC News. 16 January 2012.
  2. ARTP website Archived 2008-10-10 at the Wayback Machine; possible presence of a tomb at this location
  3. Bickel, S.; Paulin-Grothe, E. (2012). "KV 64: two burials in one tomb". Egyptian Archaeology. 41: 36–40.
  4. "New archaeological discovery at the Valley of the Kings - Ancient Egypt - Heritage - Ahram Online". english.ahram.org.eg. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  5. Batrawy, Aya (15 January 2012). "Rare tomb of woman found in Egypt Valley of Kings". The Guardian. London. Associated Press.
  6. Smith, Julian (July–August 2012). "Tomb of the Chantress". Archaeology.org.
  7. Susanne Bickel, Princesses, Robbers, and Priests - The unknown side of the Kings' Valley, Presentation at a conference at the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy, 14 October 2017, Online; KV 64 is discussed at 27:30 onward


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