Amanineteyerike (Amanneteyerike, Aman-nete-yerike, Irike-Amannote) was a
Kushite King of
Meroë
Meroë (; also spelled ''Meroe''; Meroitic: ; and ; ) was an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile about 6 km north-east of the Kabushiya station near Shendi, Sudan, approximately 200 km north-east of Khartoum. Near the site is ...
. His reign is dated to the end of the 5th century BCE.
Amanineteyerike took on a full set of titles based on those of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Amanineteyerike was the son of King
Malewiebamani
Malewiebamani was a List of monarchs of Kush, Kushite King of Meroë.
Malewiebamani's mother was likely Queen Saka'aye. Malewiebamani was the son of either Nasakhma or Siaspiqa.
Amanineteyerike and Baskakeren are thought to be sons of Malewiebam ...
, and brother of
Baskakeren. His predecessor
Talakhamani
Talakhamani was a List of monarchs of Kush, Kushite King of Meroë during the second half of the 5th century BCE. No prenomen is known, and his nomen is Talakhamani. He may have been a son of Nasakhma and a younger brother of Malewiebamani.Dows Dun ...
was either an older brother or an uncle. He was buried at the royal cemetery in Nuri (Nuri 12).
[Dows Dunham and M. F. Laming Macadam, Names and Relationships of the Royal Family of Napata, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 35 (Dec., 1949), pp. 139-149]
The earliest occurrence of the name Meroe so far found was on the
stele
A stele ( ) or stela ( )The plural in English is sometimes stelai ( ) based on direct transliteration of the Greek, sometimes stelae or stelæ ( ) based on the inflection of Greek nouns in Latin, and sometimes anglicized to steles ( ) or stela ...
of Amanineteyerike.
[Elzain, Intisar Soghayroun (2019). "MEROE, THE CITY STATE, THE KINGDOM, THE EMPIRE WHY MEROE?". p. 37.]
References
5th-century BC monarchs of Kush
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