Shanakdakhete

Shanakdakhete
Shanakdakhete
	Ruins of Temple F in Naqa, built under Shanakdakhete
Queen regnant of Kush
Reign	First half of the 1st century AD
Predecessor	Amanishakheto (?)
Successor	Unknown king (Bar. 2) (?)
Burial	Meroë, pyramid Beg. N 21 (?)

Shanakdakhete, also spelled Shanakdakheto^[1] or Sanakadakhete,^[2] was a queen regnant of the Kingdom of Kush, ruling from Meroë in the early first century AD.^[2] Shanakdakhete is poorly attested, though is known to have constructed a temple in Naqa.

Shanakdakhete was previously believed to have been the first Kushite queen regnant^[1] due to an erroneous dating of her inscriptions.^[2] This role is now instead attributed to Nahirqo.^[2]^[3]

^ ^a ^b Eide, Tormod; Hägg, Tomas; Holton Pierce, Richard; Török, László (1996). Fontes Historiae Nubiorum: Textual Sources for the History of the Middle Nile Region Between the Eighth Century BC and the Sixth Century AD: Vol. II: From the Mid-Fifth to the First Century BC. University of Bergen. pp. 660–662. ISBN 82-91626-01-4.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Kuckertz, Josefine (2021). "Meroe and Egypt". UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology: 5, 12, 16.
^ Breyer, Francis (2022). Napata und Meroë: Kulturgeschichte eines nubischen Reiches (in German). Kohlhammer Verlag. p. 208. ISBN 978-3-17-037734-9.

[:0-1] Eide, Tormod; Hägg, Tomas; Holton Pierce, Richard; Török, László (1996). Fontes Historiae Nubiorum: Textual Sources for the History of the Middle Nile Region Between the Eighth Century BC and the Sixth Century AD: Vol. II: From the Mid-Fifth to the First Century BC. University of Bergen. pp. 660–662. ISBN 82-91626-01-4.

[:2-2] Kuckertz, Josefine (2021). "Meroe and Egypt". UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology: 5, 12, 16.

[:1-3] Breyer, Francis (2022). Napata und Meroë: Kulturgeschichte eines nubischen Reiches (in German). Kohlhammer Verlag. p. 208. ISBN 978-3-17-037734-9.

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