#natakamani

[dwellerinthelibrary]

Naqa, Sudan by Guido Aldi 

Nubian royalty smiting captives, on the pylon at the front of the “lion temple” at Naga or Naqa in Sudan, dedicated to Apedemak. On the left, King Natakamani; on the right, Queen Amanitore.

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Two pillars from a stand for a barque, discovered in the Nubian site of Wad ben Naga (or Wad ban Naqa). The top one depicts the Meroitic King Natakamani, and the bottom one his co-regent, Kandake (Queen) Amanitore, who was either his mother or his wife.

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A colossal statue of a Nubian king, possibly Natakamani, now at the Sudan National Museum in Khartoum.

[amntenofre]

Natakamani, King of Meroë (I century CE), holding up the sky. On the top, the Winged Solar Orb (Horus of Behdet) with the Two Uraei. "Stay, stay on the Great Throne, Isis, Queen of the Netherworld, like the Living Solar disk on the Horizon, on which You let Your son Natakamani remain on the throne" (translation of the two rows of hieroglyphs flanking the King) scene from the bark stand of Queen/Kandake Amanitore and King Natakamani (the "Altar A") from the Temple of the Goddess Isis at Tolkte (now called "Naga/Naqa", to the east of the 6th cataract of the Nile in Sudan); now in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin...