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Nuri Pyramid II of King Amaniastabarqa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pharaoh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kushite King of Meroë | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reign | 510–487 BCE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Predecessor | Karkamani | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Successor | Siaspiqa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Died | 487 BCE? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Burial | Nuri, pyramid 2 |
Amaniastabarqa (also Amaniastabarqo) was a Kushite king of Meroë who ruled in the late Sixth or early Fifth centuries BC, c. 510–487 BCE.
Reign
He is the presumed successor of Karkamani, according to the sequence of the Nubian pyramids at Nuri where he was buried (no. 2). The pyramid was excavated by a Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition in 1917. As a result, many of the object belonged to him are now in Boston, including ushabtis, pottery, foundation deposits, stone objects and gold artifacts. A granite gneiss stela bearing Amaniastabarqa's cartouches, again from Nuri, is now in Boston too (acc. no. 17-2-1910B).
Other artifacts of him are in the Antiquities Museum of Khartoum, noticeably a gold pectoral.
References
- ^ Török, László (1994). Eide, Tormod (ed.). Fontes Historiae Nubiorum I. Bergen: Klassisk Institut, Universitetet i Bergen. pp. 299–300. ISBN 82-991411-6-8.
- Von Beckerath, Jürgen (1997). Handbuch der Ägyptischen Königsnamen. Mainz: Von Zabern. pp. 270–271. ISBN 3-8053-2591-6.
- Dows Dunham, The Royal Cemeteries of Kush, Volume II Nuri, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Massachusetts, 1955, p. 168.
- ^ Stele of King Amaniastabarqa. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
- ^ Dunham, Dows (1952). "Notes on a Gold Pectoral from Napata". Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 11 (2): 111–112. doi:10.1086/371069. S2CID 162336292.
- "Amaniastabarqa" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
- Dunham, Dows; Macadam, M. V. Laming (1949). "Names and Relationships of the Royal Family of Napata". The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. 35: 141. doi:10.1177/030751334903500124. S2CID 192423817.
Preceded byKarkamani | Rulers of Kush Meroitic Period |
Succeeded bySiaspiqa |
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