Shesepankhenamen Setepenre

Shesepankhenamen Setepenre
Kushite King of Meroe
PredecessorAmantekha (?)
SuccessorArnekhamani (?)

Shesepankhenamen Setepenre is the Horus name of an otherwise unknown king of Kush, ruling from Meroë in the second half of the 3rd century BCE. His personal name is unknown.[1] The Horus name is known only from fragmentary inscriptions on a stray block in Meroë's northern cemetery.[2] No burial site has been identified for this king.[1][3]

He is conventionally placed in the chronology of Kushite rulers as the successor of Amantekha and the predecessor Arnekhamani, ruling Kush as a contemporary of Ptolemy III Euergetes in Egypt.[3]

  1. ^ a b Török, László (2015). The Kingdom of Kush: Handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization. Brill. p. 204. ISBN 978-90-04-29401-1.
  2. ^ Eide, Tormod; Hägg, Tomas; Holton Pierce, Richard; Török, László (1996). Fontes Historiae Nubiorum: Textual Sources for the History of the Middle Nile Region Between the Eighth Century BC and the Sixth Century AD: Vol. II: From the Mid-Fifth to the First Century BC. University of Bergen. p. 572. ISBN 82-91626-01-4.
  3. ^ a b Kuckertz, Josefine (2021). "Meroe and Egypt". UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology: 5.