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Meroitic Kush: rulers and royal family

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Aburni

Aburni was a king of the Nobades of Lower Nubia in the mid-5th century AD, known from a Greek letter addressed to him by the Blemmye king Phonen.

Adikhalamani

Adikhalamani was a king of Kush of the early Meroitic period, known from a temple inscription at Dabod in Lower Nubia and dated to 207/6–186 BC.

Akinidad

Akinidad was a royal figure of the Kingdom of Kush who served as viceroy of Lower Nubia and general under Queens Amanirenas and Amanishakheto, dying around 24 BC.

Amanikhabale

Amanikhabale was a king of Kush during the Meroitic period, known from a bronze cartouche found at Kawa and conventionally placed before Natakamani and Amanitore.

Amanikhalika

Amanikhalika is a kandake, or queen, of Kush, known only from the pyramid at Meroe (Beg. N 32) speculatively attributed to her, since Meroitic chronology rests on a relative sequence of royal pyramids.

Amanikhareqerem

Amanikhareqerem was a king of Kush in the Meroitic period, now dated to the late 1st century AD and known from inscribed objects and temples at el-Hassa and Naga.

Amanikhatashan

Amanikhatashan was a kandake, or ruling queen, of Kush at Meroë who reigned in the 1st or 2nd century CE, conventionally c. 62–c. 85 CE.

Amanipilade

Amanipilade is the name attached to the last kandake, or ruling queen, of Kush, ruling from Meroe in what is now Sudan until the city was deserted around 350 CE.

Amanirenas

Amanirenas, also known as Amanirena, was a kandake, or queen, of Kush who reigned from about 40 to 10 BC and led the war against Roman-occupied Egypt.

Amanishakheto

Amanishakheto was a ruling queen of Kush around the turn of the era, best known for the gold treasure dug from her pyramid at Meroe in the 1830s.

Amanislo

Amanislo was a king of Kush in the early Meroitic period, ruling around 260 to 250 BC between Arkamani-qo and Amanitekha, and buried in a pyramid at Meroë.

Amanitaraqide

Amanitaraqide was a king of Kush (Meroitic), the kingdom centered on Meroe in what is now Sudan, dated to A.D. 228–246 by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Amanitenmemide

Amanitenmemide was a king of Kush who ruled from Meroë in what is now Sudan, known from a funerary chapel relief in Berlin dated to 60–62 CE.

Amanitenmomide

Amanitenmomide was a king of Kush who ruled from Meroë in the first century AD, known chiefly from a sandstone relief from his pyramid chapel, now in Berlin.

Amanitore

Amanitore was a kandake, or queen, of the Meroitic kingdom of Kush who reigned around 1–25 CE as co-regent with King Natakamani, known for the temples she built across the middle Nile Valley in present-day Sudan.

Amantekha

Amantekha was a king of Kush of the Meroitic period, when the Middle Nile kingdom was ruled from Meroe and its kings were buried in pyramids there.

Arikhankharer

Arikhankharer (Arikankharer) was a 1st-century AD crown prince of the kingdom of Kush, son of the co-regents Natakamani and Amanitore, who died before he could come to power.

Arnekhamani

Arnekhamani, also spelled Arnakhamani, was a king of Kush who reigned about 235 to 218 BC and built the Lion Temple at Musawwarat es-Sufra, dedicated to the lion-headed god Apedemak.

Arqamani

Arqamani, also rendered Ergamenes, was a king of Kush who ruled from Meroe in the third century BC and is the only Meroitic king named in classical literature.

Aryamani

Aryamani was a king of Kush who ruled from Meroë in the early Meroitic period, first half of the 3rd century BC, known above all from donation stelae found at Kawa.

Maloqorebar

Maloqorebar, also transliterated Maleqorobar, was a ruler of the kingdom of Kush, no. 73 in the Meroitic king list, with a conventional reign of AD 266–283.

Nahirqo

Nahirqo was a kandake, or ruling queen, of the Kingdom of Kush in the middle 2nd century BC, buried in pyramid Beg. N 11 at Meroe.

Natakamani

Natakamani, also known as Aqrakamani, was a king of Kush who co-ruled the Meroitic kingdom with Queen Amanitore from about AD 1 to 25, building temples from Amara to Naqa.

Nawidemak

Nawidemak, also known as Naldamak, was a kandake, or queen, of the Kingdom of Kush in the Meroitic period, the fourth in the succession of Kush's female rulers.

Shanakdakhete

Shanakdakhete, also spelled Shanakdakheto, was a ruling queen of the Meroitic kingdom of Kush in what is now Sudan, traditionally the first woman to rule Kush in her own right, dated to about 170–150 BC.

Shesepankhenamen Setepenre

Shesepankhenamen Setepenre is the throne name of a king of Kush during the Meroitic period, placed by most scholars near Arakamani's era; his personal name is unknown.

Shorkaror

Shorkaror, also written Shorakaror, was a ruler of Meroitic Kush in the first century AD, known from a rock-carved victory monument at Jebel Qeili in present-day Sudan.

Silko

Silko was a king of the Nobades in Lower Nubia in the first half of the 5th century, known from a Greek victory inscription at Kalabsha.

Tabirqo

Tabirqo was a king of Kush during the early Meroitic period, known essentially as the presumed owner of the royal pyramid Beg. N 9 at Meroë, though his identity is contested.

Takideamani

Takideamani was a king of Kush known from a Meroitic hieroglyphic offering table in Berlin, probably from the royal tomb Beg. N. 29 at Meroë, used by Griffith in 1910 to help decipher Meroitic.