Alara himself was not a 25th dynasty Kushite king since he never controlled any region of Egypt during his reign compared to his two immediate successors: Kashta and Piye respectively.

[4] While Alara was not assigned a royal title in Queen Tabiry's stele, his name was written in the form of a cartouche which confirms that he was indeed a Kushite king.

680 BC) One Nubian archaeologist, Timothy Kendall, has claimed that Alara is the king 'Ary' Meryamun whose Year 23 is inscribed on a now fragmented stele from the Temple of Amun at Kawa.

(Handbuch der Orientalistik 31) and believes that Ary was rather Aryamani who was a much later Kushite post-25th dynasty king who ruled from Meroë due to the text and style of his stele.

[12] Kendall notes that the occupant of Ku.9 (likely Alara): Török concurs and writes that "the mortuary cult chapel of Ku.9 seems to have been the first to be provided with a tomb stele and a funerary offering table" in el-Kurru, the royal burial grounds of the early Kushite kings.