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Nehmes Bastet or Nehemes-Bastet was an Ancient Egyptian priestess who held the office of "chantress"; she was the daughter of the high priest of
Online; KV 64 is discussed at 27:30 onward
/ref> Her funerary stele and intact coffin containing her wrapped mummy were found sitting on top of a layer of fill at the far end of the chamber. Her coffin is constructed from sycamore wood with acacia pegs and is covered with yellow decoration on a black background.
Nehmes Bastet or Nehemes-Bastet was an Ancient Egyptian priestess who held the office of "chantress"; she was the daughter of the high priest of Amun
Amun (; also ''Amon'', ''Ammon'', ''Amen''; egy, jmn, reconstructed as (Old Egyptian and early Middle Egyptian) → (later Middle Egyptian) → (Late Egyptian), cop, Ⲁⲙⲟⲩⲛ, Amoun) romanized: ʾmn) was a major ancient Egyptian ...
. She lived during the Twenty-second Dynasty
The Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt is also known as the Bubastite Dynasty, since the pharaohs originally ruled from the city of Bubastis. It was founded by Shoshenq I.
The Twenty-first, Twenty-second, Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, and Twenty-f ...
(approximately 945–712 BC) and was buried in tomb KV64 in the Valley of the Kings. 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 Nehmes Bastet worshiping before a composite deity with attributes of both a sun-god and the god Osiris.
Burial
On 25 January 2011, the upper edge of the shaft of KV64 was discovered and the tomb was excavated and described in 2012 by Dr. Susanne Bickel and Dr. Elina Paulin-Grothe, a team from University of Basel in Switzerland.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 2017Online; KV 64 is discussed at 27:30 onward
/ref> Her funerary stele and intact coffin containing her wrapped mummy were found sitting on top of a layer of fill at the far end of the chamber. Her coffin is constructed from sycamore wood with acacia pegs and is covered with yellow decoration on a black background.
See also
* KV63 * KV65References
Ancient Egyptian mummies People of the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt {{AncientEgypt-bio-stub