Nehmes Bastet
Nehmes Bastet was a priestess and held the office of "chantress" in Ancient Egypt. She lived during the Twenty-second Dynasty and was buried in the Valley of Kings. She was the daughter of the high priest of Amun. Her tomb is designated as. 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.
The site of her burial had been identified as a likely tomb location in 2000, by the Amarna Royal Tombs Project, but not excavated. On January 25, 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.
