Amanitore
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Amanitore (around 50 AD) was a Nubian queen who is usually named together with King Natakamani and who may also rule. Like a king, she also had a throne name written in Egyptian hieroglyphics : Merkare .
On various monuments she appears on an equal footing with this ruler: in temple B 500 in Napata , in the temple of Amun M 260 in Meroe , in the lion temple ( Apedemak ) of Naqa or in the temple of Duanib , to name just a few examples.
It has therefore mostly been assumed in research that she was the wife of this ruler and ruled with him on an equal footing. Recent observations, however, cast doubts on this interpretation. Amanitore is apparently never called qore , which is the Meroitic word for king . Her regular title, however, is kdke ( Kandake ). So she hardly ruled as king.
In the vicinity of Natakamani and Amanitore, three princes or high dignitaries ( Arikancharora , Arakachatani , Shorakaror ) appear again and again , of whom Arikancharora was certainly not the son of the Amanitore, so that it can be assumed that Natakamani probably had another wife. So Natakamani and Amanitore were probably not a royal couple. Amanitore seems to have been the mother of the ruler who ruled for her son when he was young.
Amanitore was buried in Meroe in pyramid N1 . The building is only approx. 6 × 6 m in size, whereby it is not actually a pyramid, but two mastabas built on top of one another . Her name was found in the burial chapel before it was built. This consists of a room with a pylon. The pyramid and chapel have now been partially restored.
See also
literature
- Bertha Porter , Rosalind LB Moss , Ethel W. Burney: Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. VII. Nubia, The Deserts, and outside Egypt. Griffith Institute / Ashmolean Museum , Oxford 1975, p. 243 ( PDF file; 21.6 MB ); Retrieved from The Digital Topographical Bibliography .
- László Török : Fontes Historiae Nubiorum Vol IV: Corrigenda and Indices. (Monograph) University of Bergen, Department of Greek, Latin and egyptology, impr., Bergen 1998, ISBN 8291626073 , pp. 901-904
- Michael H. Zach: Thoughts on the kdke Amanitore. In: CA Arnst, I. Hafemann, A. Lohwasser (eds.): Encounters - Ancient cultures in the Nile valley. Ceremony for Erika Endesfelder , Karl-Heinz Priese, Walter Friedrich Reineke, Steffen Wenig. Wodtke and Stegbauer, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3934374026 , pp. 509-520
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| SURNAME | Amanitore |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | nubian queen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century BC BC or 1st century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century |