Maloqorebar

Maloqorebar (late 3rd or early 4th century AD) was an ancient Kushite prince.^[1]^[2]

He is known from a single inscription, no. REM 0101, found in the so-called "Meroitic chamber" of the temple of

Philae, which was originally read as tdxe Mloqorebr qoret Lhidmni. A recently discovered contemporary inscription, however, allows this reading to be corrected to tdxe Mloqorebr qore Tlhidmni. The word tdxe means 'child' and usually connected a child's name to a mother's. Qore(t) indicates a ruler.^[3]

The original reading was variously translated:

"the mother of Maloqorebar the king, Lakhidamani" (Griffith)[3]
"Lakhidamani, the mother's child of the ruler Maloqorebar" (Macadam, Haycock)^[3]
"Maloqorebar, child of a queen Lakhideamani"^[1]
"a present that Maloqorebar, the king's man, and Lakhidamani" (Priese, reinterpreting tdxe)^[3]

The revised reading is translated "the child Maloqorebar and the ruler Talakhidamani". It is based on the appearance of the king Talakhidamani in another inscription.^[1]^[3] The name Maloqorebar probably means "beautiful is the boy of the kings".^[3] The inscription is associated with a diplomatic mission sent by Talakhidamani to meet with Roman authorities. It is possible that he was ruling Kush as regent on behalf of the young Maloqorebar.^[1] Since royal names at the time typically had the -amani element (after Amun), Maloqorebar does not appear to have been a ruler. In the inscription, the two are placed under the protection of the goddess Patarus (an epithet of Isis) and the child god Horus.^[3]

The absence of Maloqorebar's name on the other inscription of Talakhidamani suggests that he died before it was carved.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Josefine Kuckertz (2021), "Meroe and Egypt", in Wolfram Grajetzki, Solange Ashby and Willeke Wendrich (eds.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Los Angeles.
^ Joshua Mark, "The Candaces of Meroe", World History Encyclopedia, retrieved 2 June 2019, lists Maloqorebar as a queen (kandake) of Kush from 266 to 283.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Claude Rilly (2017), "New Light on the Royal Lineage in the Last Decades of the Meroitic Kingdom: The Inscription of the Temple of Amun at Meroe Found in 2012 by the Sudanese–Canadian Mission", Sudan and Nubia 21: 144–147 (appendix to "The Amun Temple at Meroe Revisited" by Krzysztof Grzymski).

[JK-1] Josefine Kuckertz (2021), "Meroe and Egypt", in Wolfram Grajetzki, Solange Ashby and Willeke Wendrich (eds.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Los Angeles.

[2] Joshua Mark, "The Candaces of Meroe", World History Encyclopedia, retrieved 2 June 2019, lists Maloqorebar as a queen (kandake) of Kush from 266 to 283.

[CR-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Claude Rilly (2017), "New Light on the Royal Lineage in the Last Decades of the Meroitic Kingdom: The Inscription of the Temple of Amun at Meroe Found in 2012 by the Sudanese–Canadian Mission", Sudan and Nubia 21: 144–147 (appendix to "The Amun Temple at Meroe Revisited" by Krzysztof Grzymski).

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