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plural candaces
Title of any Nubian (Kush) queen or queen mother. quotations examples
Shanakdekhete's namesake was a candace of the 160s B.C.E. who appears to have been the first sole female ruler of Meroe; her name appears on the Meroitic hieroglyphs at Naga, among the earliest examples of Meroitic known.
1995, Wilton Barnhardt, Gospel: A Novel, page 693