Amanikhabale (also transliterated Astabarqaman) was a

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who probably ruled in the first half of the 1st century CE. Amanikhabale is known from inscriptions from Kawa, Basa, and

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, as well as a broken stela from

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. The quality and scale of the monuments on which Amanikhabale's inscriptions have been found, as well as their geographical distribution, indicates that he had a prosperous reign.

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suggested that Amanikhabale was buried in Pyramid 2 at the North cemetery (Beg. N 2) at Meroe (Bagrawiyah), Reisner, G. A., ''The Meroitic Kingdom of Ethiopia: A Chronological Outline'', ''The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology'', 9, No. 1/2 (Apr., 1923), pp. 34-77. largely supported by scholars since. Amanikhabale's name is known from a fragment of a table found in Beg. N 3, which can be fitted together with fragments in Beg. N 2 and Beg. N 4. The table designates his mother as the queen regnant Nawidemak. This further supports Beg. N 2 as his burial since it has close

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similarities with Nawidemak's tomb, Bar. 6.

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