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KANDAKE SHANAKDATHETE 170 BC–150 BC

She was the earliest known ruling African queen of ancient Nubia, She was a queen regnant of the Kingdom of Kush, when the polity was centered at Meroe. She reigned from about 170 to 150 BC, it is also stated that as queen she played a significant role in the Meroitic religion.

Even though her family antecedents remain obscure, in one of her carvings on a dorsal pillar she is shown adorned with an insignia of rank on the forehead and a crown, similar to the one worn by the reigning kings with decoration of a sun-disk and tall feathers. She appears in the works of art in some cases, along with a smaller man. This man raises his arm from behind her to touch her crown. As long as we see in the cases of the god “Amon” taking this situation the same when property gives power to the king, some scientists have thought that the man standing behind her was crowned prince. They believe that either her husband or her father, who died before reaching the throne.

Shanakdakhete’s name is engraved in a destroyed temple, where they found the oldest inscriptions hieroglyphic writing irrigated. Her pyramid in Meroe is one of the largest pyramids built by the kings of Kush. Pyramid featuring unique chapel contains two rooms and two columns. The chapel is one of the most accurate sculptures. Landscapes in the chapel depicting military campaigns to the south show large numbers of livestock and prisoners. The queen’s landscapes appear in the form of a huge obese woman, also all Meroe queens had similar forms, which is a symbol not only aesthetically pleasing, but rather an expression of wealth and power.

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