Tanyidamani
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Reign | around 100 BCE | ||||||||||
Predecessor | Nahirqo | ||||||||||
Successor | Pakhedateqo (?) | ||||||||||
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Tanyidamani was a Kushite king of Meroë who ruled in the second half of the 2nd century BCE.[1] He was most likely the son of king Adikhalamani and Queen Nahirqo.[1]
Tanyidamani is known by some objects, the most remarkable among these is a large stele from
Meroitic alphabet. Another smaller, red siltstone stele was found in the temple of Apedemak at Meroë, and is now at the Walters Art Museum
.
On a
Hieroglyphics, but these are identical: Tanyidamani. The Meroitic inscriptions only mention one name and it seems that the original Egyptian royal titulary composed of five names was apparently abandoned with the introduction of the Meroitic language
and alphabet. The only term used in this simplified titulary is Qore which probably means “king”.
No pyramid can be securely attributed to Tanyidamani,[2] though he has been proposed to have been buried in Beg. N 12,[1][3] which is from the generation immediately after Beg. N 11[3] (Nahirqo's burial).[1] The chronologically next known Kushite king is Pakhedateqo, who is thus placed as Tanyidamani's potantial successor.[1]
References
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- ^ a b c d e Kuckertz, Josefine, 2021, Meroe and Egypt. In Wolfram Grajetzki, Solange Ashby, and Willeke Wendrich (eds.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Los Angeles. ISSN 2693-7425 [1]. pp. 5, 13
- ISBN 8291626014.
- ^ ISBN 82-91626-01-4.
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Rulers of Kush |
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