Akhraten
Akhraten | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
King of Kush | |||||
File:Nuri Pyramid Nu XIV King Akhraten r c 350-335 BCE.jpg | |||||
Reign | (ca. 350–335 BCE) | ||||
Predecessor | Harsiotef | ||||
Successor | Nastasen or Amanibakhi | ||||
Born | BCE | ||||
Died | ca. 335 BCE | ||||
Burial | Pyramid N14 at Nuri | ||||
| |||||
Dynasty | Meroitic period | ||||
Father | Harsiotef? |
| |||||||||||||
Akhraten in hieroglyphs | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Era: New Kingdom (1550–1069 BC) | |||||||||||||
Akhraten (also transliterated Akhratan) was a King of Kush (ca. 350 BCE – 335 BCE). Akhraten took on at least some titles based on those used by the Egyptian pharaohs.[1] Horus name: Kanakht Tjema Neditef ("Mighty Bull whose arm is powerful, Protector of his Father") Prenomen: Neferibre ("Re is one whose heart is beautiful") Nomen: Akhraten Akhratan may have been a son of Harsiotef and a brother of Nastasen.[2] Akhratan is known from a cartouche in a chapel and from a black granite statue found in Barkal Temple 500, now located in Boston (23.735).[2] The statue is headless and is missing its feet. Akhraten may have been succeeded as King of Kush by Nastasen, but some scholars suggest that a king named Amanibakhi may have ruled between Akraten and Nastasen.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Török, László (1997). The Kingdom of Kush: Handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-10448-8.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dunham, Dows; Macadam, M. F. Laming (1949). "Names and Relationships of the Royal Family of Napata". Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. 35: 139–149. doi:10.1177/030751334903500124. S2CID 192423817.