Amanikhabale

Amanikhabale
King of Kush
Reign (50 BCE-40 BCE)
Predecessor Possibly Kandake Nawidemak?
Successor Teriteqas alongside Kandake Amanirenas at Napata
Born BCE
Died ca 40 BCE
Burial Pyramid Beg.N2 at Meroë
Full name
Amanikhabale
Dynasty Meroitic period

Amanikhabale (also transliterated Astabarqaman) was a King of Kush (circa 50 BCE-40 BCE).[1]

According to Reisner, Amanikhabale was buried in Pyramid 2 at the North cemetery (Beg. N2) at Meroe (Bagrawiyah).[2]

References

  1. ↑ George A. Reisner, The Pyramids of Meroe and the Candaces of Ethiopia, Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin, Vol. 21, No. 124 (Apr., 1923), pp. 11-27
  2. ↑ G. A. Reisner, The Meroitic Kingdom of Ethiopia: A Chronological Outline, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 9, No. 1/2 (Apr., 1923), pp. 34-77

Further reading

  • "A proposito del frammento di stele del re Amanikhabale (Khartoum 522)". Studi di Egittologia e di Papirologia (in Italian) (3): 165–173. 2006. ISSN 1724-6156. (with images of the king's stela)


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