Atasamale (also Tesmalo) was the mother of the

Nubia Nubia (, Nobiin language, Nobiin: , ) is a region along the Nile river encompassing the area between the confluence of the Blue Nile, Blue and White Nile, White Niles (in Khartoum in central Sudan), and the Cataracts of the Nile, first cataract ...

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Harsiotef Harsiotef was a Kushite King of Meroë (about 404 – 369 BC). Harsiotef took on a full set of titles based on those of the Egyptian Pharaohs: Harsiotef was the son of Queen Atasamale and likely of King Amanineteyerike. He had a wife named Qu ...

(ruled very roughly around 400 BC). She is known from a stela of her son and from her burial at

Nuri Nuri is a place in modern Sudan on the west side of the Nile River, Nile, near the Fourth Cataract. Nuri is situated about 15 km north of Sanam, Sudan, Sanam, and 10 km from Jebel Barkal. History Nuri is the second of three Napatan bur ...

. Her titles are ''mother of the kings'', ''sister of the king'' and ''Lady of Kush''. She might have been the wife of

Amanineteyerike Amanineteyerike (Amanneteyerike, Aman-nete-yerike, Irike-Amannote) was a Kushite King of Meroë. 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. Amanin ...

, although this is only a guess. Her burial at

consisted of a pyramid with a chapel and two underground burial chambers. There was a staircase going underground and leading to two rooms. The burial was found robbed, but fragments of uninscribed

shabti The ushabti (also called shabti or shawabti, with a number of variant spellings) was a funerary figurine used in ancient Egyptian funerary practices. The Egyptological term is derived from , which replaced earlier , perhaps the nisba of "' ...

s were found. There were several vessels and a die made of faience or white paste. Her name was preserved on an offering table found thereDows Dunhamː ''The Royal cemeteries of Kush'', vol. II, Boston 1955, pp. 232-23
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