Akheqa was a

Nubia Nubia () (Nobiin: Nobīn, ) is a region along the Nile river encompassing the area between the first cataract of the Nile (just south of Aswan in southern Egypt) and the confluence of the Blue and White Niles (in Khartoum in central Sudan), or ...

n queen with the Egyptian titles ''king's wife'' and ''king's sister''. Her royal husband is not known for sure. Perhaps she was the daughter of

Aspelta Aspelta was a ruler of the kingdom of Kush (c. 600 – c. 580 BCE). More is known about him and his reign than most of the rulers of Kush. He left several stelae carved with accounts of his reign. Family Aspelta was the son of Senkamanisken a ...

and wife of

Aramatle-qo Aramatle-qo or Amtalqa was a Meroitic king. Dunham and Macadam, as well as Török, mentions that Aramatle-qo used the following prenomen and nomen: ''Prenomen:'' Wadjkare ("Re is one whose ka endures") ''Nomen:'' Aramatle-qo Family Aramatle-qo ...

, as proposed by Dows Dunham and M. F. Laming Macadam. Akheqa is only known from her burial at

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

(Nu. 38) Her burial consisted of a pyramid with a small chapel in front of it. There is a staircase going down to the two burial chambers that were found looted. The burial still contained fragments of at least 170

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 "' ...

figures of the queen, providing her name and titles. The publication remarks that they were almost identical to the shabtis{{typo help inline, reason=similar to ushabtis, date=September 2022 of queen

Madiqen Madiqen was a Nubian queen with the Egyptian titles ''king's wife'', ''king's wife of the living'' and ''king's sister''. Her mother was queen Nasalsa. Her father was most likely king Senkamanisken. Her royal husband is not known for sure, but As ...

and therefore made in the same workshop. There were also found shabtis of queen

Nasalsa Nasalsa was a Nubian queen of the Kingdom of Kush dated to the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt. She is known from a shabti, some inscriptions on tablets and cups, text on the stela of Khaliut, a dedication inscription and a text from Kawa.Dows Du ...

, queen Madiqen and Artaha.Dows Dunhamː ''The Royal cemeteries of Kush, vol. II, Nuri'', Boston 1955, pp. 129-130, 262, fig. 20
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