Talakhamani
| Talakhamani | |||||
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Nuri pyramid 16. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. | |||||
| Predecessor | Malewiebamani | ||||
| Successor | Amanineteyerike | ||||
| Burial | (Nuri 16) | ||||
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| Talakhamani in hieroglyphs | |||||||||||
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Late Period (664–332 BC) | |||||||||||
Talakhamani was a Kushite King of Meroë during the second half of the 5th century BCE. No prenomen is known, and his nomen is Talakhamani. He may have been a son of Nasakhma and a younger brother of Malewiebamani.[1] It is also possible Talakhamani is a son of Malewiebamani.[2]
Talakhamani is known from a stela from his chapel which is now in Boston. According to an inscription in
Meroe. He is said to have been succeeded by Amanineteyerike at the age of 41.[1]
Talakhamani's name is etymologically identical with that of King Talakhidamani, who ruled seven centuries later in the late 3rd or early 4th century AD.[3]
Nuri pyramid
XVI of King Talakhamani (ruins in the forefront)References
- ^ a b Dows Dunham and M. F. Laming Macadam, Names and Relationships of the Royal Family of Napata, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 35 (Dec., 1949), pp. 139-149
- ^ Samia Dafa'alla, Succession in the Kingdom of Napata, 900-300 B.C., The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1 (1993), pp. 167-174
- ^ 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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