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Napatan Kush: rulers and royal family

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Nasakhma

Nasakhma was a king of Kush of the Napatan period, reigning about 468–463 BC between Siaspiqa and Malewiebamani, and buried in pyramid Nu. 19 at Nuri near Napata.

Nasalsa

Nasalsa was a queen of the Napatan kingdom of Kush around 640–620 BC, the sister and wife of Senkamanisken and mother of kings Anlamani and Aspelta.

Nastasen

Nastasen was a king of Kush of the Napatan line, ruling around 335–315 BC, known from a granite stela in Berlin and buried at Nuri.

Pebatjma

Pebatjma, also printed Pabatma, was a Kushite royal wife of King Kashta around 750 BC, probably also his sister, and the mother of Amenirdis I, God's Wife of Amun.

Peksater

Peksater (also Pekasater) was a royal wife of the Kushite king Piye, recorded as his sister and a daughter of Kashta, buried at Abydos in Egypt.

Qalhata

Qalhata (Khalhata) was a queen consort of Kush of the 25th Dynasty, wife of King Shabaqo and mother of King Tanwetamani, buried around 700 to 650 BCE at el-Kurru.

Sabrakamani

Sabrakamani was a king of Kush, the Nubian kingdom centered on Napata, attested only by one fragmentary stela and dated uncertainly to the late 5th or 4th century BC.

Sakhmakh

Sakhmakh, also spelled Sekhmakh, was a queen consort of Kush and wife of King Nastasen, known from his stela bearing the titles king's daughter, king's wife, and mistress of Egypt.

Senkamanisken

Senkamanisken was a king of Kush who ruled from Napata in what is now Sudan around 643–623 BC, succeeding his father Atlanersa and buried under Pyramid 3 at Nuri.

Siaspiqa

Siaspiqa, also written Siaspiqo, was a king of Kush of the Napatan period, reigning from 487 to 468 BC and buried in pyramid 4 at Nuri.

Tabekenamun

Tabekenamun, also printed Tabakenamun, was a royal woman of Kush's 25th Dynasty, a king's daughter and sister whom one tradition makes the major wife of King Shabaka.

Tabiry

Tabiry was a Napatan royal woman of Kush, daughter of King Alara and queen Kasaqa and wife of King Piye, buried in Tomb 53 at el-Kurru.

Talakhamani

Talakhamani was a Napatan king of Kush, buried in a pyramid at Nuri in present-day Sudan after the kings Nasakhma and Malewiebamani, and the only Napatan king recorded as having died naturally at Meroë.

Yeturow

Yeturow was a royal wife of the Napatan king Atlanersa, buried in tomb Nu 53 at Nuri, Sudan, with one of the few surviving painted Kushite burial chambers.