Amanislo was a king of Kush dating to the middle of the third century BCE.László Török, The kingdom of Kush: handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization, 1997

Monuments and inscriptions

Pyramid of King Amanislo, Meroe Southern Cemetery

Amanislo is mainly known from his pyramid at Meroë. He is buried in Meroe, Beg. S 5. From the position of his pyramid it has been argued that he was the successor of king Arakamani and the predecessor of

Amantekha Amantekha was a little known king of Nubia. He most likely ruled in the Third Century BCE Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's mo ...

.Derek A. Welsby, The Kingdom of Kush (Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1998) He is also known from an inscription on a granite lion figure, originally belonged to the Egyptian pharaoh

Amenhotep III Amenhotep III ( egy, jmn-ḥtp(.w), ''Amānəḥūtpū'' , "Amun is Satisfied"; Hellenized as Amenophis III), also known as Amenhotep the Magnificent or Amenhotep the Great, was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. According to different ...

and now at the British Museum. There is also a column drum, found at Semna perhaps providing his name, although the reading is uncertain.

In modern culture

Amanislo appears as Amonasro, King of Ethiopia in Verdi's '' Aida,'' following the scenario written by

Auguste Mariette François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette (11 February 182118 January 1881) was a French scholar, archaeologist and Egyptologist, and the founder of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities, the forerunner of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. Early ...

References

Literature

* Laszlo Török, in: ''Fontes Historiae Nubiorum, Vol. II'', Bergen 1996, p. 568-569, {{DEFAULTSORT:Amanislo 3rd-century BC monarchs of Kush History of Sudan 3rd-century BC rulers