The Ancient Kushite princess commonly known as Amenirdis I was the daughter of Kashta and sister of Piye ^[1] and Shabaka. Kashta arranged to have her adopted by the Divine Adoratrice of Amun, Shepenupet I, at Thebes as her successor ^[2]; this proves that he already controlled Upper Egypt prior to the reign of Piye, his successor. Kashta was a king of the Kushite Dynasty. ... Piye, whose name was once transliterated as Py(ankh)i. ... Donation stela of Shabaka, Metropolitan Museum Shabaka (or Shabaka Neferkare meaning Beautiful is the Soul of Re) was a Kushite pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt, between (721 BC – 707/706 BC). ... The title Divine Adoratrice of Amun can be seen as a resurgence of the title Gods Wife of Amun which had fallen out of use until the 19th Dynasty, where Ramses IVs daughter Aset held the role, as well as the additional title of Divine Adoratrice. ... Shepenupet I (or sometime Shapenewpet I) was the first of the hereditary Gods Wife or Divine Adoratrice of Amun to wield political power in ancient Thebes and its surrounding region. ... Thebes Thebes (, Thēbai) is the Greek designation of the ancient Egyptian niwt (The) City and niwt-rst (The) Southern City. It is located about 800 km south of the Mediterranean, on the east bank of the river Nile (). Thebes was the capital of Waset, the fourth Upper Egyptian nome...

On her death, she was buried in a tomb in the grounds of Medinet-Habu. Medinet Habu from the air Medinet-Habu is the mortuary temple of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses III. It is located on the west bank of the River Nile at Thebes, Egypt, south of the morturary temple of Tutankhamun/Horemheb. ...

References

• Ian Shaw, The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, Oxford University Press 2003
• Alexander J. Peden, The Graffiti of Pharaonic Egypt: Scope and Roles of Informal Writings (c. 3100-332 B.C.), Brill Academic Publishers 2001

1. ^ Shaw op.cit p.347
2. ^ Peden op.cit. p.276