Amanishakheto

Amanishakheto was a kandake of Nubia. She seems to have reigned from 10 BCE to 1 CE, although most dates of Nubian history before the Middle Ages are very uncertain. Amanishakheto is known from several monuments. She is mentioned in the Amun-temple of Kawa, on a stela from Meroe, and in inscriptions of a palace building found at Wad ban Naqa, from a stela found at Qasr Ibrim, another stela from Naqa and her pyramid at Meroe (Beg. no. N6). Her titles were Candace and later "qore", which means "king".Fact|date=May 2008

Amanishakheto is best known from a treasure of jewellery recovered in 1834 from her pyramid in Meroe. These pieces are now in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin and Munich.

Further reading

*Laszlo Török, in: "Fontes Historiae Nubiorum" Vol. II, p. 723-725 (Bergen, 1996). ISBN 82-91626-01-4

External links

* [http://www.dignubia.org/bookshelf/rulers.php?rul_id=00024&ord= digNubia]
* [http://www.homestead.com/wysinger/nubian102.html The treasure of the queen (English)]
* [http://www.muzarp.poznan.pl/muzeum/muz_eng/naga08.htm Stela found in Naqa]
* [http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/PA/EGYPT/BEES/IMAGES/MEROE/II1D3_4.html Chicago Oriental Institute Archive: picture of her destroyed pyramid]