Kashta

Kashta was a king of the Kushite Dynasty. His reign length is unknown.

While he ruled from Napata, which is 400 km north of Khartoum, the modern capital of Sudan, he 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 is associated with the Adopted God's Adoratice of Amun, Amenirdis, Piye's daughter. Kashta's wife was Queen Pebatma.

The pyramids of el-Kurru contain the tombs of Kashta and his son Piye (Piankhi), together with Piye's successors Shabaka, Shebitku and Tanwetamani.

Preceded by:
Alara Pharaoh of Egypt
Kushite king Succeeded by:
Piye

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