Shanakdakhete, also spelled Shanakdakheto[1] or Sanakadakhete,[2] was a queen regnant of the Kingdom of Kush, ruling from Meroë in the early first century AD.

[2] This interpretation made Shanakdakhete the earliest recorded Kushite queen regnant,[1] which in turn led scholars to attribute the pyramid Beg.

[2] This pyramid dates to the second century BC and does not preserve the name of the buried ruler,[2] though depicts a queen regnant in its reliefs.

N 11 and the double statue previously associated with Shanakdakhete are "both now attributed with good reasons" to the queen regnant Nahirqo, dated to the second century BC.

[3] Similar spellings of hieroglyphic signs suggest that Shanakdakhete ruled close to the time of another queen regnant, Amanishakheto.