Amaniastabarqa (also Amaniastabarqo) was a Kushite king of

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who ruled in the late Sixth or early Fifth centuries BC, c. 510–487 BCE.Stele of King Amaniastabarqa
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Reign

He is the presumed successor of Karkamani, according to the sequence of the

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where he was buried (no. 2). The pyramid was excavated by a

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Expedition in 1917. As a result, many of the object belonged to him are now in Boston, including

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s, pottery,

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s, stone objects and gold artifacts. A granite gneiss stela bearing Amaniastabarqa's

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s, again from Nuri, is now in Boston too (acc. no. 17-2-1910B).
Other artifacts of him are in the Antiquities Museum of

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, noticeably a gold

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References

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