Adikhalamani
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|reign = First half of the 2nd century BCE
|predecessor = Arqamani
|successor = Tabirqo (?)
|spouse = Nahirqo (?)
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Adikhalamani was a king of Kush, ruling from Meroë in the first half of the 2nd century BCE.{{cite journal|last=Kuckertz|first=Josefine|year=2021|title=Meroe and Egypt|url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6061m848|journal=UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology|pages=5, 11–13}}
Sources and chronology
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Adikhalamani's name is known only from inscriptions at the temple complex of Philae.{{cite book|last1=Eide|first1=Tormod|url=https://digitalt.uib.no/handle/1956.2/3083#preview|title=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|last2=Hägg|first2=Tomas|last3=Holton Pierce|first3=Richard|last4=Török|first4=László|author4-link=László Török|year=1996|publisher=University of Bergen|isbn=82-91626-01-4|page=590}}
Although no burial for Adikhalamani can be securely identified, he is conventionally attributed either Beg. N 8 or Beg. N 9, both located in Meroë and dating to the approximate time of Adikhalamani's reign. Beg. N 8 preserves the fragmentary name "(...)mr(...)t" and Beg. N 9 preserves the name "Tabirqo". László Török (2015) suggested that Tabirqo was a "funerary name" of Adikhalamani and that (...)mr(...)t was a distinct succeeding king.{{cite book|last=Török|first=László|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Guh5DwAAQBAJ|title=The Kingdom of Kush: Handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization|year=2015|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-29401-1|page=204}} Josefine Kuckertz (2021) instead proposed that Adikhalamani and (...)mr(...)t were the same king and that Tabirqo was a distinct succeeding king. If Kuckertz's identification is accepted, Adikhalamani was the husband of Nahirqo, whose name is recorded in Beg. N 8 and who later ruled as the first queen regnant of Kush.
Adikhalamani is believed to have been contemporary with an Egyptian revolt dated to ca. 207-186 BCE. During this revolt a ruler, Horwennefer (who may have been a Nubian) took control of Thebes and revolted against Ptolemy IV Philopator. The revolt ended ca. 186 BCE when Ankhwennefer (his successor or more likely Horwennefer with a different nomen) was captured and executed.[http://www.tyndalehouse.com/Egypt/ptolemies/genealogy.htm The Ptolemaic Dynasty] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110204004502/http://www.tyndalehouse.com/Egypt/ptolemies/genealogy.htm|date=February 4, 2011}} by Chris Bennett. Retrieved June 2, 2010.
Titles
- Prenomen: Titenre Setepnetjeru ("Image of Re, chosen of the Gods")
- Nomen: Adikhalamani with epithet MeryisetTörök, László. The Kingdom of Kush: Handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization, 1997.