Aramatle-qo
{{Infobox pharaoh
|role = Kushite King of Meroe
|image = Statue Aramatleqo Turin.JPG
|caption = Sitting statue of Aramatle-qo. Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin (ÄM 2249)
|name = Wadjkare Aramatle-qo
|burial = Nuri 9
|prenomen = Wadjkare ("Re is one whose ka endures")
|nomen_hiero =
|predecessor = Aspelta
|successor = Malonaqen
|spouse = Atamataka, Piankh-her, Maletasen, Amanitakaye, Akheqa?
|children = King Malonaqen
|father = Aspelta
|mother = Queen Henuttakhbit
}}
Aramatle-qoWelsby, Derek A., The Kingdom of Kush, British Museum Press, 1996. p. 207. or Amtalqa was a Meroitic king.
Dunham and Macadam, as well as Török, mentions that Aramatle-qo used the following prenomen and nomen:Török, László. The Kingdom of Kush: Handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization, (1997).
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Family
Aramatle-qo was the son and successor of King Aspelta and Queen Henuttakhbit. He had several wives:
- Atmataka, her pyramid is located at Nuri (Nu. 55). A heart-scarab belonging to Atamataka was found in Nu. 57.
- Piankhher. Buried at Nuri (Nu. 57)
- Akhe(qa?) was a daughter of Aspelta (and possibly Henuttakhbit). She may have been a sister wife of Aramatle-qo. She is buried at Nuri (Nu. 38)
- Amanitakaye, was a daughter of Aspelta and a sister-wife of Aramatle-qo. She is the mother of King Malonaqen. Buried at Nuri (Nu. 26). Known from a shawabti and other funerary items.
- Maletasen is known from many shabtis. She was buried at Nuri (Nu. 39).
Monuments
Aramatle-qo is primarily attested by his pyramid Nu 9 in Nuri which dates to the end of the 6th or the 5th century BC. A votive object bearing his name originates from Meroe.Török, László. Meroe City, an Ancient African Capital, London 1997, S. 236-39, {{ISBN|0-85698-137-0}}. A piece of jewelry from Aramatle-qo's pyramid, a gold collar necklace which bears his name, was found here. It may have belonged to the king himself or to one of his courtiers.
File:Nuri Pyramid Nu -IX Kushite (Napatan) (2).jpg|Nuri pyramid IX of Aramatle-qo.
File:Kushite necklace spacer.jpg|Napatan necklace spacer made of gold, 6th century BC. It is inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs in the name of Aramatle-qo.
References
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External links
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- [http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/chronology/nubia/aramatleqo.html Aramatle-qo]
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