Amaniastabarqa

Amaniastabarqa
Nuri Pyramid II of King Amaniastabarqa
Nuri Pyramid II of King Amaniastabarqa
Pharaoh
Kushite King of Meroë
Reign510–487 BCE
PredecessorKarkamani
SuccessorSiaspiqa
Royal titulary
Horus name
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Prenomen  (Praenomen)
Setepkare
Ra is one whose ka is choice[1][2]
Alternative reading:
Sehetepkare[3]
The Ka of Ra pacifies
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Nomen
Amaniastabarqa
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Died487 BCE?
BurialNuri, 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]

  1. ^ Török, László (1994). Eide, Tormod (ed.). Fontes Historiae Nubiorum I. Bergen: Klassisk Institut, Universitetet i Bergen. pp. 299–300. ISBN 82-991411-6-8.
  2. ^ Von Beckerath, Jürgen (1997). Handbuch der Ägyptischen Königsnamen. Mainz: Von Zabern. pp. 270–271. ISBN 3-8053-2591-6.
  3. ^ Dows Dunham, The Royal Cemeteries of Kush, Volume II Nuri, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Massachusetts, 1955, p. 168.
  4. ^ Stele of King Amaniastabarqa. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.