Talakhamani was a
Kushite King of
Meroe 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 Meroe. 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 t ...
and a younger brother of
Malewiebamani
Malewiebamani was a Kushite King of Meroe.
''Prenomen:'' Kheperkare ("Re is one whose ka is manifest")
''Nomen:'' Malewiebamani
Malewiebamani's mother was likely Queen Saka'aye. Malewiebamani was the son of either Nasakhma or Siaspiqa.
Ama ...
.
[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] It is also possible Talakhamani is 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 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 commemora ...
, who ruled seven centuries later in the late 3rd or early 4th century AD.
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).
References
5th-century BC monarchs of Kush
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