Amanikhabale

{{Infobox pharaoh

|role = King of Kush

|image = Kushite king (Beg N 2).jpg

|caption = Damaged portrait of the king buried in Beg. N 2, possibly Amanikhabale

|reign = First half of the first century CE (?)

|name = Amanikhabale

|predecessor = Nawidemak

|successor = Natakamani and Amanitore (?)

|burial = Pyramid Beg. N 2 at Meroë (?)

}}

Amanikhabale (also transliterated Astabarqaman) was a King of Kush who probably ruled in the first half of the 1st century CE.{{cite journal|last=Kuckertz|first=Josefine|year=2021|title=Meroe and Egypt|url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6061m848|journal=UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology|pages=5, 16}} Amanikhabale is known from inscriptions from Kawa, Basa, and Naqa, as well as a broken stela from Meroë. The quality and scale of the monuments on which Amanikhabale's inscriptions have been found, as well as their geographical distribution, indicates that he had a prosperous reign.{{cite book|last1=Eide|first1=Tormod|url=https://digitalt.uib.no/handle/1956.2/3083#preview|title=Fontes Historiae Nubiorum: Textual Sources for the History of the Middle Nile Region Between the Eighth Century BC and the Sixth Century AD: Vol. III: From the First to the Sixth Century AD|last2=Hägg|first2=Tomas|last3=Holton Pierce|first3=Richard|last4=Török|first4=László|author4-link=László Török|year=1998|publisher=University of Bergen|isbn=82-91626-07-3|pages=836–837}}

George Andrew Reisner suggested that Amanikhabale was buried in Pyramid 2 at the North cemetery (Beg. N 2) at Meroe (Bagrawiyah),Reisner, G. A., The Meroitic Kingdom of Ethiopia: A Chronological Outline, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 9, No. 1/2 (Apr., 1923), pp. 34-77. largely supported by scholars since. Amanikhabale's name is known from a fragment of a table found in Beg. N 3, which can be fitted together with fragments in Beg. N 2 and Beg. N 4. The table designates his mother as the queen regnant Nawidemak. This further supports Beg. N 2 as his burial since it has close palaeographic similarities with Nawidemak's tomb, Bar. 6.