Amenirdis_II

Amenirdis II

Amenirdis II

Divine Adoratrice of Amun

The ancient Nubian princess Amenirdis II, daughter of the Kushite pharaoh Taharqa of the 25th Dynasty, was adopted by Shepenupet II, daughter of Piye,[2] to become Divine Adoratrice of Amun from around 650 BC to 640 BC during the 26th Dynasty. Amenirdis adopted Nitocris, daughter of Psamtik I, to become her successor.[3] She may have been married to one of Taharqa's sons, king Atlanersa.[4]

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References

  1. [1]
    von Beckerath, Jürgen (1999). Handbuch der Ägyptischen Königsnamen (in German). Mainz am Rhein, Von Zabern. ISBN 3-8053-2591-6. pp. 210-11
  2. [2]
    Aidan Dodson, Monarchs of the Nile, American University in Cairo Press, 2000. p.184
  3. [3]
    Dodson, p.188
  4. [4]
    Morkot, Robert (1999). "Kingship and Kinship in the Empire of Kush". In Wenig, Steffen (ed.). Studien zum antiken Sudan. meroitica. Vol. 15. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 200. ISBN 3447041390.
  • Robert Steven Bianchi, Daily Life Of The Nubians, Greenwood Press 2004
  • Karol Myśliwiec, The Twilight of Ancient Egypt: First Millennium B.C.E., Cornell University Press 2000
  • I. E. S. Edwards, John Boardman, John B. Bury, S. A. Cook, The Cambridge Ancient History, Cambridge University Press 1969
  • Aidan Dodson, Monarchs of the Nile, American Univ. in Cairo Press 2000

Further reading

  • Dodson, Aidan (2002). "The problem of Amenirdis II and the heirs of the office of God's Wife of Amun during the Twenty-sixth Dynasty". Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. 88: 179–186. doi:10.1177/030751330208800112. S2CID 190737173.
Preceded by Divine Adoratrice of Amun
650–640 BCE		 Succeeded by



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