Asata 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 ''Person of Egypt''. She was perhaps the wife of king

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 ...

. However, this relationship is only a guess. Asata is mainly 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 ...

(Nuri 42). Her burial consisted of a pyramid with a small chapel in front of it. The pyramid was found heavily destroyed. The chapels was totally gone. There is a staircase going down to two burial chambers that were found looted, but still contained a high number of objects, including the

heart scarab The heart scarab is an oval, scarab artifact dating from ancient Egypt. Mostly an amulet, it was also used as jewelry, a memorializing artifact, or a grave good. The heart scarab was used by referring to Chapter 30 from the Book of the Dead ...

of the queen, at least 270 shabtis (providing her name and title), several stone vessels, amulets and other fragments that must have covered the mummy.Dows Dunhamː ''The Royal cemeteries of Kush, vol. II, Nuri'', Boston 1955, pp. 115-118 (Nu 41), 261
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