Amaniastabarqa
| Amaniastabarqa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Nuri Pyramid II of King Amaniastabarqa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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.[4]
Reign
He is the presumed successor of Karkamani, according to the sequence of the Nubian pyramids at Nuri where he was buried (no. 2).[1] The pyramid was excavated by a Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition in 1917.[5] As a result, many of the object belonged to him are now in Boston, including ushabtis, pottery, foundation deposits, stone objects and gold artifacts.[6][7] A granite gneiss stela bearing Amaniastabarqa's cartouches, again from Nuri, is now in Boston too (acc. no. 17-2-1910B).[4]
Other artifacts of him are in the Antiquities Museum of Khartoum, noticeably a gold pectoral.[5]
References
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b Stele of King Amaniastabarqa. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
- ^ a b 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.
