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Amanikhabale
King of Kush
Reign(50 BCE-40 BCE)
PredecessorPossibly Kandake Nawidemak?
SuccessorTeriteqas alongside Kandake Amanirenas at Napata
BornBCE
Diedca 40 BCE
Burial
Pyramid Beg.N2 at Meroë
Names
Amanikhabale
DynastyMeroitic 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)