Nasakhma (Nasakhmaqa) was a
Kushite King of
Meroe. He was the successor of king
Siaspiqa
Siaspiqa (also Si'aspiqo) was a ruler of the Kushite kingdom of Meroƫ reigning for close to twenty years in the first half of the 5th century BC. Very little is known of Siaspiqa's activities beyond the construction of his pyramid at Nuri, now k ...
.
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 throne after his brother
Malewiebamani.
[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] Another possibility is that Talakhamani is
Malewiebamani's son
[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] and thus possibly Nasakhma's grandson.
Nasakhma was buried at
Nuri
Nuri is a place in modern Sudan on the west side of the Nile, near the Fourth Cataract. Nuri is situated about 15 km north of Sanam, and 10 km from Jebel Barkal.
Nuri is the second of three Napatan burial sites and the construction of ...
(Nu. 19).
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts holds several objects that may belong to Nasakhma: shabtis, vessel fragments, etc. excavated form his tomb.
References
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5th-century BC monarchs of Kush