This dissertation aims to make an analysis of the representations of the Candaces in the kingdom of Kush, region of Nubia (current Sudan), between the 1st century AC and the 1st BC. To do so, we will make use of the material culture related to the candaces (with a greater emphasis on the Hamadab Stele) and of the accounts about it present in book 17 of Geography from the Greco-Roman writter, Strabo. The candaces are recognized as prominent figures in African studies of antiquity, representing the strength of the feminine and the woman as an active individual. They assumed important social and political roles, acting as advisors to their husbands, brothers or sons, and even assuming government autonomously and independently between the 2nd and 4th centuries BC. The term candace is an appropriation and Greco-Roman translation of a word belonging to the Kushita vocabulary. It derives from the word of meroitic origin KTKE or KDKE, which from its Latinization, after the Roman contact with this society, becomes a queen-mother. This term reached greater importance and recognition for the identification of these women as sovereign in the writings and accounts made by Greek and Roman narrators. However, the title of Kushita origin was not only used for the sovereigns who exercised the central power, but to identify and name the wives, mothers and sisters of the rulers who had an extremely important role on their side in the government, as well as in the legitimation of their coronation.