Natakamani
| Natakamani | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Statue of Natakamani, Argo Island, Tabo Temple, c. 60 CE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| King of Kush | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reign | Middle 1st century (50 — 80) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coregency | Amanitore (spouse) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Amanikhabale (?) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Shorkaror | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Natakamani, also called Aqrakamani, was a king of Kush who reigned from Meroë in the middle of the 1st century CE. He ruled as co-regent with the Kandake Amanitore. While the title "Kandake" has sometimes been interpreted as "Queen Mother," leading to early theories that she was his mother, the prevailing modern view based on their equal iconography and shared children is that they were spousal co-rulers. Natakamani is the best attested ruler of the Meroitic period. He and Amanitore may have been contemporaries of the Roman emperor Nero.
Historical images
Natakamani name
A statue that may depict Natakamani
Monumental Natakamani statue, as found in 1821
Another statue of Natakamani, as found in 1821
Stela with meroitic inscriptions for Natakamani and Amanitore
References
- ↑ All proper names of the Meroitic kings are written in Meroitic: The characters of this language are then partly adopted into Egyptian hieroglyphs, whereby the name remains Meroitic and thus initially incomprehensible.
- 1 2 3 4 Kuckertz, Josefine (2021). "Meroe and Egypt". UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology: 5, 13, 17.
- ↑ Mokhtar, G. (2001) Ancient Civilizations of Africa "University of California Press". p. 168. ISBN 0-85255-092-8.
- ↑ Török, László (2002). The Image of the Ordered World in Ancient Nubian Art: The Construction of the Kushite Mind, 800 Bc-300 Ad. Brill. p. 226. ISBN 978-90-04-12306-9.