Amanirenas
Sign in to saveAlso known as Amanirena, Amnirense qore li kdwe li, Candace, Ameniras, Qore and Kandake
Amanirenas (also spelled Amanirena), was queen regnant of the Kingdom of Kush from mid to late 1st century BCE. She is known for invading Roman occupied Egypt and successfully negotiating with Roman emperor Augustus the end of Roman retaliation, thus retaining Kushite independence.
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- Kushite Queen of Meroë
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- Bar 4 Kush queen (Lepsius).jpg
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- A portrait of the Kushite queen regnant buried in pyramid Bar. 4, possibly Amanirenas
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- Amanirenas
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- Amanishakheto
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- Jebel Barkal (Bar. 4?)
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11 sectionsContents
- Biography
- Strabo's Account (17.53-54)
- Kushite Invasion of Egypt
- Petronius' Nubian Campaign
- Ensuing Peace Treaty
- Meroë Head
- Hamadab Stela
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- References
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Amanirenas (also spelled Amanirena), was queen regnant of the Kingdom of Kush from mid to late 1st century BCE. She is known for invading Roman occupied Egypt and successfully negotiating with Roman emperor Augustus the end of Roman retaliation, thus retaining Kushite independence.
Her full title was Amnirense qore li kdwe li ("Ameniras, qore and kandake"). Meroitic, the indigenous language of the kingdom of Kush, remains undeciphered; however, inscriptions giving Queen Amanirenas the title of "qore" as well as "kandake" suggest that she was an individually ruling queen.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Amanirenas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.