Amanitore, also spelled Amanitere or Amanitare,[1] was a queen regnant of the Kingdom of Kush, ruling from Meroë in the middle of the 1st century CE.

Amanitore's royal palace was at Gebel Barkal in modern-day Sudan, which now is a UNESCO heritage site.

The quantity of building that was completed during the middle part of the first century indicates that this was the most prosperous time in Meroitic history.

Amanitore may be the kandake mentioned in the Bible in the story about the conversion of the Ethiopian in Acts 8:26–40:[7] And the angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Get up, and go toward the south unto the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza, which is desert.

And he got up and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem to worship, was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Isaiah the prophet….