Tanyidamani
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]
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Votive Plaque of Tanyidamani, Walters Art Museum | |||||||||||
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| Reign | around 100 BCE | ||||||||||
| Predecessor | Nahirqo | ||||||||||
| Successor | Pakhedateqo (?) | ||||||||||
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Tanyidamani is known by some objects, the most remarkable among these is a large stele from Jebel Barkal: it is the first long-known text in 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 bronze cylinder found at Jebel Barkal both his throne name and personal name are given in 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 edit
- ^ 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
- ^ László Török, in: Fontes Historiae Nubiorum, Vol. II, Bergen 1996, pp. 662–672, ISBN 8291626014.
- ^ a b Eide, Tormod; Hägg, Tomas; Holton Pierce, Richard; Török, László (1996). Fontes Historiae Nubiorum: Textual Sources for the History of the Middle Nile Region Between the Eighth Century BC and the Sixth Century AD: Vol. II: From the Mid-Fifth to the First Century BC. University of Bergen. p. 664. ISBN 82-91626-01-4.
| Preceded by: | Rulers of Kush | Succeeded by: |