Shanakdakhete

Shanakdakhete was a ruling queen of Kush, when the Kingdom was centered at Meroe. She is the earliest known ruling queen of Nubia, and reigned from about 177 to 155 BC (these dates are very uncertain and disputed [http://www.arkamani.org/arkamani-library/meroitic_conference_paris/rilly_paleography.htm "Meroitic Palaeography as a Tool for Chronology: Prospects and Limits"] , "Arkamani. Sudan Journal of Archaeology and Anthropology", September 2004] ).

The only inscription mentioning her comes from Temple F in Naga where her name appears "in Meroitic hieroglyphics in the middle of an Egyptian text." [ [http://www.arkamani.org/arkamani-library/meroitic_conference_paris/rilly_paleography.htm#4.1.%20Queen%20Shanakdakhete%20(REM%200039,%200051-0054) Queen Shanakdakhete (REM 0039, 0051-0054)] ] The name appears in Meroitic script, the earliest known example of Meroitic writing. Her pyramid was identified at Meroë, but does not preserve her name.

References

Further reading

*Laszlo Török, in: "Fontes Historiae Nubiorum, Vol. II", Bergen 1996, 660-662

External links

* [http://www.homestead.com/wysinger/shanadakhete.html The Candaces of Meroe (332 BC- 12 AD)]