Maloqorebar (late 3rd or early 4th century AD) was an ancient

Kushite The Kingdom of Kush (; Egyptian: 𓎡𓄿𓈙 𓈉 ''kꜣš'', Assyrian: ''Kûsi'', in LXX grc, Κυς and Κυσι ; cop, ''Ecōš''; he, כּוּשׁ ''Kūš'') was an ancient kingdom in Nubia, centered along the Nile Valley in wh ...

prince.Josefine Kuckertz (2021)
"Meroe and Egypt"
in Wolfram Grajetzki,

Solange Ashby Solange Ashby is an Egyptologist, Nubiologist and archaeologist, whose expertise focuses on language and religion in ancient Egypt. Career Ashby studied for a BA in Intercultural Studies at Bard College at Simon's Rock. She graduated with a ...

and Willeke Wendrich (eds.), ''UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology'', Los Angeles., lists Maloqorebar as a queen (''

kandake Kandake, kadake or kentake ( Meroitic: 𐦲𐦷𐦲𐦡 ''kdke''),Kirsty Rowan"Revising the Sound Value of Meroitic D: A Phonological Approach,"''Beitrage zur Sudanforschung'' 10 (2009). often Latinised as Candace ( grc, Κανδάκη, ''Kandak� ...

'') of Kush from 266 to 283. He is known from a single inscription, no. REM 0101, found in the so-called "Meroitic chamber" of the temple of

Isis Isis (; ''Ēse''; ; Meroitic: ''Wos'' 'a''or ''Wusa''; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤎, romanized: ʾs) was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kin ...

Philae ; ar, فيلة; cop, ⲡⲓⲗⲁⲕ , alternate_name = , image = File:File, Asuán, Egipto, 2022-04-01, DD 93.jpg , alt = , caption = The temple of Isis from Philae at its current location on Agilkia Island in Lake Nasse ...

, 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.

Claude Rilly Claude Rilly (born 1960) is a French linguist, Egyptologist, and archaeologist at the CNRS who primarily specializes in Meroitic and Nilo-Saharan languages. He is also the Director of the French Archaeological Mission in Sedeinga, Sudan. Li ...

(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). The original reading was variously translated: *"the mother of Maloqorebar the king, Lakhidamani" (Griffith) *"Lakhidamani, the mother's child of the ruler Maloqorebar" (Macadam, Haycock) *"Maloqorebar, child of a queen Lakhideamani" *"a present that Maloqorebar, the king's man, and Lakhidamani" (Priese, reinterpreting ''tdxe'') The revised reading is translated "the child Maloqorebar and the ruler Talakhidamani". It is based on the appearance of the 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 commemora ...

in another inscription. The name Maloqorebar probably means "beautiful is the boy of the kings". 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. 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. The absence of Maloqorebar's name on the other inscription of Talakhidamani suggests that he died before it was carved.

References

{{Reflist 3rd-century monarchs of Kush de:Maloqorebar