Amanislo was a

king of Kush This is an incomplete list for rulers with the title of Qore (king) or Kandake (queen) of the Kingdom of Kush. Some of the dates are only rough estimates. While the chronological list is well known, only a few monarchs have definite dates. The ...

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 Meroë (; also spelled ''Meroe''; Meroitic: or ; ar, مرواه, translit=Meruwah and ar, مروي, translit=Meruwi, label=none; grc, Μερόη, translit=Meróē) was an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile about 6 km north-east ...

. 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 Arakamani (also Arkamaniqo, Arkakamani or Ergamenes I) was a Nubian king of Meroë, who ruled in the early third century BCE. Biography The only secure archeological attestations of Arakamani come from his funerary pyramid at Meroë (Pyramid B ...

and the predecessor of Amantekha.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 Pharaoh (, ; Egyptian: '' pr ꜥꜣ''; cop, , Pǝrro; Biblical Hebrew: ''Parʿō'') is the vernacular term often used by modern authors for the kings of ancient Egypt who ruled as monarchs from the First Dynasty (c. 3150 BC) until the ...

Amenhotep III and now at the

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

. There is also a column drum, found at

Semna The region of Semna is 15 miles south of Wadi Halfa and is situated where rocks cross the Nile narrowing its flow—the Semna Cataract. Semna was a fortified area established in the reign of Senusret I (1965–1920 BC) on the west bank of the N ...

perhaps providing his name, although the reading is uncertain.

In modern culture

Amanislo appears as Amonasro, King of Ethiopia in

Verdi Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the h ...

's ''

Aida ''Aida'' (or ''Aïda'', ) is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, it was commissioned by Cairo's Khedivial Opera House and had its première there on 24 Decemb ...

,'' following the scenario written by Auguste Mariette.

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