Shorkaror

{{Infobox pharaoh

|name=Shorkaror

|role = King of Kush

|reign = Second half of the 1st century AD

|predecessor = Amanitore and Natakamani

|successor = Amanikhareqerem (?)

|NomenHiero = SA F1 S zA S F1 S

|Nomen = Shorkaror

}}

Shorkaror was a king of Kush who ruled from Meroë in the second half of the 1st century AD.{{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, 17}} Shorkaror is attested as king in two inscriptions in Amara and in a large rock carving at Gebel Qeili.{{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. III: From the First to the Sixth Century AD|last2=Hägg|first2=Tomas|last3=Holton Pierce|first3=Richard|last4=Török|first4=László|author4-link=László Török|year=1998|publisher=University of Bergen|isbn=82-91626-07-3|pages=908, 910}} His identification as a king has sometimes been doubted, though the rock carving depicts him with royal regalia and attire. The carving is near to the trade route to Kassala and is the easternmost inscription of the Meroitic kings found so far.{{cite book|last=Welsby|first=Derek A.|author-link=:de:Derek A. Welsby|title=The Kingdom of Kush: The Napatan and Meroitic Empires|place=Princeton|publisher=Markus Wiener Publishers|orig-year=1996|year=1998|isbn=978-1558761810}}

Shorkaror is attested as a crown prince in the co-reign of Amanitore and Natakamani, meaning that he was likely their successor. He was preceded as crown prince by Arikhankharer and Arikakahtani, possibly his brothers. In older scholarship, Amanitore was believed to have been Natakamani's wife, with Shorkaror as their son. Amanitore is now known to have been Natakamani's mother, which leaves Shorkaror's specific relation to his predecessors unclear.

George Andrew Reisner believed that Shorkaror was buried in pyramid Beg. N 10 in Meroë.Reisner, G. A., The Meroitic Kingdom of Ethiopia: A Chronological Outline, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology'', 9, No. 1/2 (Apr., 1923), pp. 34-77. This is now considered unlikely given that Beg. N 10 is dated to the 2nd century BCE.{{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}} Shorkaror's burial site is instead conventionally regarded as unidentified.