Amaniastabarqa

Amaniastabarqa
Nuri Pyramid II of King Amaniastabarqa
Pharaoh
Kushite King of Meroë
Reign	510–487 BCE
Predecessor	Karkamani
Successor	Siaspiqa
Royal titulary Horus name Swtj (?) Prenomen  (Praenomen) Setepkare Ra is one whose ka is choice[1][2] Alternative reading: Sehetepkare[3] The Ka of Ra pacifies Nomen Amaniastabarqa
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

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.
5. 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.
6. "Amaniastabarqa" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
7. 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.

Preceded by Karkamani

Rulers of Kush Meroitic Period

Succeeded by Siaspiqa