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Abar (queen)
Abar, also printed Abalo, was a queen of Kush in the early 7th century BC, wife of King Piye and mother of Taharqa, depicted shaking the sistrum on Taharqa's stelae at Kawa.
Akhraten
Akhraten, also spelled Akhratan, was a king of Kush in the Napatan period, ruling in the second half of the fourth century BC between Harsiotef and Nastasen.
Aktisanes
Aktisanes (Greek Actisanes, Ἀκτισάνης) is a king of Aethiopia, the Greek name for Kush, whom Diodorus Siculus describes as conquering Egypt and founding Rhinocolura; modern scholarship doubts the account.
Alara (Kushite king)
Alara was a king of Kush in the first half of the eighth century BCE, the first known ruler of the Napatan dynasty buried at El-Kurru.
Amaniastabarqa
Amaniastabarqa, also spelled Amaniastabarqo, was a king of Kush of the Napatan period, buried in pyramid Nu. 2 at Nuri and conventionally assigned a reign of about 510–487 BC.
Amanibakhi
Amanibakhi was a king of Kush of the Napatan period, placed in the late 5th to 4th century BC between Akhraten and Nastasen; no dated text of his reign survives.
Amanimalel
Amanimalel, also spelled Amanimalil, was a queen of Napata in Kush who flourished in the 7th century BC, presumed consort of King Senkamanisken and known from two statues, one found at Gebel Barkal in 1916.
Amaninatakilebte
Amaninatakilebte was a king of Kush of the Napatan dynasty, ruling in the sixth century BC between Analmaaje and Karakamani and buried in a pyramid at Nuri.
Amanineteyerike
Amanineteyerike, also written Aman-nete-yerike, was a king of Kush who reigned in the late fifth century BC and left inscriptions at Kawa and a pyramid at Nuri.
Analmaye
Analmaye, also printed Analmaaye, was a king of Kush of the Napatan period who ruled c. 542–538 BC, succeeded Amaninatakilebte after Malonaqen, and was buried in pyramid Nu. 18 at Nuri.
Anlamani
Anlamani was a king of Kush of the Napatan period who ruled in the late seventh century BC, succeeding his father Senkamanisken before his brother Aspelta.
Aramatle-qo
Aramatle-qo, also known as Amtalqa, was a king of Kush in the first half of the 6th century BC, buried in pyramid Nu. 9 at Nuri.
Aspelta
Aspelta was a king of Kush around 593 BC who succeeded his brother Anlamani, recorded his divine election on the Election Stela, and was buried in a pyramid at Nuri.
Atakhebasken
Atakhebasken was a royal wife of Taharqa, king of Kush and Egypt in the 7th century BC, buried in a pyramid at the royal cemetery of Nuri in Sudan.
Atasamale
Atasamale, also rendered Tshis-ma-nufe, Tesmalo, or Atasamalo, was a queen mother of the Napatan kingdom of Kush, known as the mother of King Harsiotef from his stela at Jebel Barkal, active around 400 BC.
Atlanersa
Atlanersa was a king of Kush of the Napatan period, reigning about 653 to 643 BC, after the end of the 25th Dynasty's rule in Egypt.
Baskakeren
Baskakeren was a king of Kush of the Napatan period, assigned a reign of 405 to 404 BC and burial in pyramid Nu. 17 at Nuri, Sudan.
Batahaliye
Batahaliye was a queen of Napatan Kush in the fifth to fourth century BC, wife of King Harsiotef, buried in a pyramid at Nuri in Sudan.
Harsiotef
Harsiotef was a king of Kush during the Napatan period, ruling from Meroe for at least 35 years, probably the longest reign of any Kushite king.
Henuttakhebit
Henuttakhebit, also read Henuttakheb, was a royal woman of the Napatan kingdom of Kush in the early 6th century BC, attested on a stele of King Aspelta.
Irike-Amannote
Irike-Amannote, also written Irike Amaninote, was a king of Kush in the fifth century BC who succeeded Talakhamani; his Great Inscription at Kawa records his accession by the army.
Irike-Piye-qo
Irike-Piye-qo is the name given in modern king lists to a ruler of Kush of the Napatan period, placed in the 3rd century BC as ruler number 31.
Karkamani
Karkamani was a king of Kush of the Napatan period, reigning from about 519 to 510 BC at Napata and buried in pyramid Nu. 7 at Nuri in northern Sudan.
Kasaqa
Kasaqa was a royal wife of Alara of Kush, the founder of the Napatan royal line, and the mother of Tabiry, who married the Kushite king Piye.
Kashta
Kashta was a king of Kush, ruling from Napata in the mid-eighth century BC, and the first Kushite king whose power reached into Upper Egypt.
Khensa
Khensa is a Kushite royal woman of the early Napatan period, the era of King Piye, whose conquest of Egypt laid the foundations of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty around 747–716 BC.
Madiqen
Madiqen was a royal woman of the Napatan kingdom of Kush, a sistrum-player of Amun installed by king Anlamani and buried in Pyramid 27 at Nuri.
Malewiebamani
Malewiebamani was a king of Kush of the Napatan period who reigned from about 463 to 435 BC, succeeding Nasakhma and buried at Nuri in pyramid 11.
Malonaqen
Malonaqen was a king of Kush in the Napatan period, reigning about 555 to 542 BC and buried in pyramid no. 5 at Nuri in Sudan.
Naparaye
Naparaye was a royal woman of the Kushite (Napatan) kingdom of the seventh century BC, cataloged as great royal wife, royal wife, and royal sister under pharaoh Taharqa, with her burial place unresolved.