Amanikhatashan was a queen regnant of the Kingdom of Kush, probably ruling in the middle 2nd century CE.[1] Amanikhatashan is known only from her tomb in Meroë, designated as Beg. N 18.[2]
The objects found in Amanikhatashan's tomb place her as reigning at some point in the first or second centuries CE.[2] The artwork in the tomb is stylistically close to the artwork in the tomb Beg. N 16, which suggests that Amanikhatashan reigned close to the ruler buried in that tomb.[2] Beg. N 16 may have belonged to King Amanikhareqerem and dates to the end of the 1st century CE.[3] Assuming a mid-2nd century CE reign, Amanikhatashan is conventionally (speculatively) placed as the successor of Amanitenmemide and the predecessor of Tarekeniwal.[3]
References
edit- ^ Török, László (2015). The Kingdom of Kush: Handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization. Brill. p. 206. ISBN 978-90-04-29401-1.
- ^ a b c 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. 935. ISBN 82-91626-01-4.
- ^ a b Kuckertz, Josefine (2021). "Meroe and Egypt". UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology: 5.
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