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Amanitenmemide was a
The decoration of the chapel copied by the Lepsius expedition (top left and bottom left)
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Amanitenmemide was a Nubian
Nubian may refer to:
*Something of, from, or related to Nubia, a region along the Nile river in Southern Egypt and northern Sudan.
*Nubian people
*Nubian languages
*Anglo-Nubian goat, a breed of goat
* Nubian ibex
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king whose throne name was Nebmaatre. His name is written in Meroitic, while his throne name is written in classical Egyptian hieroglyphs
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.
He is thus far only known from his pyramid in Meroe (Beg. N17). The pyramid occupies an area of 8.6 X 8.6 m and is, therefore, one of the smaller royal pyramids at Meroe. In front of the pyramid there was a decorated chapel. The decoration was copied by the Lepsius expedition. One wall was brought to Berlin, where it is displayed in the Neues Museum
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. Another, now only preserved in six blocks, is in the British Museum
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in London.''Pharaons noirs, sur la Piste des Quarante Jours'', Mariemont 2007, p. 164-65 (Nr. 81)
Three skeletons were found in the burial chamber of the pyramid - two of them belonging to women, the third to a man of about 30 years, which are, perhaps, the remains of the king himself.
There is little evidence for dating the king. The small size of the pyramid indicates a date after Natakamani
Natakamani was a King of Kush who reigned from around or earlier than 1 BC to c. AD 20.Oliver, Roland and Brian M. Fagan ''Africa in the Iron Age'' "Cambridge University Press". p. 40. . Natakamani is the best attested ruler of the Meroitic period ...
, under whom the pyramids in general became smaller. It has been suggested that Amanitenmemide belongs to the first century AD.
References
Literature
* Inge Hofmann, ''Beiträge zur meroitischen Chronologie'', St. Augustin bei Bonn 1978, p. 139, *Laszlo Török, in: ''Fontes Historiae Nubiorum, Vol. III'', Bergen 1998, p. 914-916,External links
The decoration of the chapel copied by the Lepsius expedition (top left and bottom left)
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