Ergamenes

Names of Ergamenes
Throne name	in Egyptian hieroglyphs Khnum -ib-Re ẖnm-jb-Rˁ provided with the heart / will of Re
Proper name	Arkamaniqo in Egyptian hieroglyphics

Ergamenes , also Ergamenes I. or Arkamaniqo , was a Nubian king in the 3rd century BC. BC (around 270 BC). He is considered to be the first ruler of the Meroitic period .

Life

Ergamenes appears in Diodorus (3.2.1-7.3), who in turn refers to Agatharchides . He is said to have been a contemporary of Ptolemy II , which provides a chronological fixed point in Meroitic history. Educated in Greek philosophy , Ergamenes resisted the orders of the ruling priests to be ritually killed and had them put down themselves.

Ergamenes is usually equated with the king Arkamaniqo, known from Nubian sources. This is only known from his pyramid Beg S6 in Meroe , which is the oldest pyramid of a ruler in this place, in which one can see evidence that something new began under him, which the Greek sources seem to indicate .

See also

• List of the Nubian kings

literature

• Bertha Porter , Rosalind LB Moss , Ethel W. Burney: Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. VII. Nubia, The Deserts, and outside Egypt. Griffith Institute / Ashmolean Museum , Oxford 1975, p. 257 ( PDF file; 21.6 MB ); Retrieved from The Digital Topographical Bibliography .
• László Török in Tormod Eide u. a .: Fontes historiae nubiorum: textual sources for the history of the middle Nile region between the eighth century BC and the sixth century AD. Vol. 2. From the mid fifth to the first century BC (= Fontes historiae Nubiorum. Volume 2). University of Bergen, Bergen 1996, ISBN 82-91626-01-4 , pp. 566-567.

Remarks

1. ↑ with Egyptian hieroglyphs written in Meroitic