Amanislo
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Amanislo was a king of Kush dating to the middle of the third century BC.
. He is buried in Beg. S 5. From the position of his pyramid it has been argued that he was the successor of king Arakamani and the predecessor of Aman-tekha.
He is also known from an inscription on a lion figure. The figure originally belonged to the Egyptian king Amenhotep III
. There is a column drum, found at Semna
perhaps providing his name, although the reading is uncertain.
's Aida
, following the scenario written by Auguste Mariette
.
Titles
- Prenomen: Ankh-nefribre ("Neferibre lives")
- Nomen: Amanislo, epithet Meryamun ("Beloved of Amun")
Monuments and Inscriptions
Amanislo is only known from his pyramid at MeroeMeroë
Meroë Meroitic: Medewi or Bedewi; Arabic: and Meruwi) is an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile about 6 km north-east of the Kabushiya station near Shendi, Sudan, approximately 200 km north-east of Khartoum. Near the site are a group of villages called Bagrawiyah...
. He is buried in Beg. S 5. From the position of his pyramid it has been argued that he was the successor of king Arakamani and the predecessor of Aman-tekha.
He is also known from an inscription on a lion figure. The figure originally belonged to the Egyptian king Amenhotep III
Amenhotep III
Amenhotep III also known as Amenhotep the Magnificent was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty. According to different authors, he ruled Egypt from June 1386 to 1349 BC or June 1388 BC to December 1351 BC/1350 BC after his father Thutmose IV died...
. There is a column drum, found at Semna
Semna (Nubia)
Semna was a fortified town established in the reign of Senusret I on the west bank of the Nile at the southern end of a series of fortresses founded during the 12th Dynasty in the second-cataract area of Lower Nubia. The Semna gorge, at the southern edge of ancient Egypt, was the narrowest part...
perhaps providing his name, although the reading is uncertain.
Amanislo in Modern Culture
Amanislo appears as Amonasro, King of Ethiopia in VerdiGiuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...
's Aida
Aida
Aida sometimes spelled Aïda, is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a scenario written by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette...
, following the scenario written by Auguste Mariette
Auguste Mariette
François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette was a French scholar, archaeologist and Egyptologist, the designer of the rebuilt Egyptian Museum under Maximilian of Austria orders when the later had gained control of the artifacts collected to that point.-Early career:Born at Boulogne-sur-Mer, Mariette...
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Literature
- Laszlo Török, in: Fontes Historiae Nubiorum, Vol. II, Bergen 1996, S. 568-569, ISBN 82-91626-01-4