Kashta was a king of the
Kushite Dynasty whose names translates literally as "The Kushite". (Grimal: p.334) While he ruled Nubia from
Napata, which is 400 km north of
Khartoum, the modern capital of
Sudan, he also exercised a strong degree of influence--though not control--over Upper Egypt by managing to install his daughter,
Amenirdis I, as the
God's Wife of Amun in
Thebes. A stela from his reign has been found in
Elephantine (modern day
Aswan)--at the local temple dedicated to the God Khnum--which attests to his control of this region. It bears his royal prenomen: Nimaatre. Egyptologists today believe that either he or more likely
Piye was the Year 12 Nubian king mentioned in a well-known inscription at Wadi Gasus which associates the Adopted God's Adoratice of Amun, Amenirdis, Kashta's daughter together with Year 19 of the serving God's Wife of Amun,
Shepenupet I, daughter of
Osorkon III. Kashta's wife was Queen Pebatma.
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