Akinidad Stela

REM 1003

Anonymous / Meroitic court scribes, naming Queen Amanirenas and Prince Akinidad, her viceroy of Lower Nubia · c. late 1st century BC · Hamadab (near Meroe) (Sudan) · history

Forty-five lines of cursive Meroitic naming Queen Amanirenas and Prince Akinidad, her viceroy in Lower Nubia, make this one of the longest preserved cursive Meroitic royal texts from Amanirenas's reign, though scholars still dispute whether it commemorates her war against Rome or a building and offering record.