Amanikhabale
Amanikhabale (also transliterated Astabarqaman) was a King of Kush who probably ruled in the first half of the 1st century CE. Amanikhabale is known from inscriptions from Kawa, Basa, and Naqa, as well as a broken stela from Meroë. The quality and scale of the monuments on which Amanikhabale's inscriptions have been found, as well as their geographical distribution, indicates that he had a prosperous reign.
| Amanikhabale | |||||
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| King of Kush | |||||
Damaged portrait of the king buried in Beg. N 2, possibly Amanikhabale | |||||
| Reign | First half of the first century CE (?) | ||||
| Predecessor | Nawidemak | ||||
| Successor | Natakamani and Amanitore (?) | ||||
| Burial | Pyramid Beg. N 2 at Meroë (?) | ||||
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George Andrew Reisner suggested that Amanikhabale was buried in Pyramid 2 at the North cemetery (Beg. N 2) at Meroe (Bagrawiyah), largely supported by scholars since. Amanikhabale's name is known from a fragment of a table found in Beg. N 3, which can be fitted together with fragments in Beg. N 2 and Beg. N 4. The table designates his mother as the queen regnant Nawidemak. This further supports Beg. N 2 as his burial since it has close palaeographic similarities with Nawidemak's tomb, Bar. 6.