Talakhamani was a
Kushite King of
Meroë
Meroë (; also spelled ''Meroe''; Meroitic: ; and ; ) was an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile about 6 km north-east of the Kabushiya station near Shendi, Sudan, approximately 200 km north-east of Khartoum. Near the site is ...
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
Nasakhma (Nasakhmaqa) was a Kushite King of Meroë. He was the successor of king Siaspiqa.
Nasakhma was succeeded by Malewiebamani, who may have been his eldest son. It is possible that Talakhamani was a younger son of Nasakhma who took the thro ...
and a younger brother of
Malewiebamani
Malewiebamani was a List of monarchs of Kush, Kushite King of Meroë.
Malewiebamani's mother was likely Queen Saka'aye. Malewiebamani was the son of either Nasakhma or Siaspiqa.
Amanineteyerike and Baskakeren are thought to be sons of Malewiebam ...
.
[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] Alternatively, Talakhamani may have been a son of Malewiebamani.
[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]
Talakhamani is known from a stela from his chapel which is now in Boston. According to an inscription in
Kawa he died in his palace at
Meroe. He is said to have been succeeded by
Amanineteyerike
Amanineteyerike (Amanneteyerike, Aman-nete-yerike, Irike-Amannote) was a Kushite King of Meroë. His reign is dated to the end of the 5th century BCE.
Amanineteyerike took on a full set of titles based on those of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Amanin ...
at the age of 41.
Talakhamani's name is etymologically identical with that of King
Talakhidamani Talakhidamani (or Talakhideamani)The pronunciation is reconstructed as /talahidamani/ by Rilly. was the king of Kush in the mid or late 3rd century AD, perhaps into the 4th century. He is known from two Meroitic inscriptions, one of which commemor ...
, who ruled seven centuries later in the late 3rd or early 4th century AD.
Claude Rilly
Claude Rilly (born November 4, 1959) is a French linguist, Egyptologist, and archaeologist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research who primarily specializes in Meroitic and Nilo-Saharan languages. He is professor at the École prati ...
(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 t
"The Amun Temple at Meroe Revisited"
by Krzysztof Grzymski).
References
5th-century BC monarchs of Kush
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