Adikhalamani was a Kushite King of Meroe

Meroë

Meroë Meroitic: Medewi or Bedewi; Arabic: and Meruwi) is an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile about 6 km north-east of the Kabushiya station near Shendi, Sudan, approximately 200 km north-east of Khartoum. Near the site are a group of villages called Bagrawiyah...

 dating to the 2nd century BCE. Adikhalamani was the successor of King Arqamani

Arqamani

King Arqamani was a Kushite King of Meroë dating to the late 3rd to early 2nd century BCE who is known from inscriptions from Philae and Dakka...

 and was later succeeded by a king whose name has only partially survived: (...)mr(...)t. He is said to be contemporary with an Egyptian revolt dated to ca. 207-186 BCE. During this revolt a ruler, Horwennefer

Hugronaphor

Hugronaphor was an Upper Egyptian of apparently Nubian origin who led Upper Egypt in secession from the rule of Ptolemy IV Philopator in 205 BC...

 (who may have been a Nubian) took control of Thebes

Thebes, Egypt

Thebes is the Greek name for a city in Ancient Egypt located about 800 km south of the Mediterranean, on the east bank of the river Nile within the modern city of Luxor. The Theban Necropolis is situated nearby on the west bank of the Nile.-History:...

 and revolted against Ptolemy IV Philopator

Ptolemy IV Philopator

Ptolemy IV Philopator , son of Ptolemy III and Berenice II of Egypt was the fourth Pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt...

. The revolt ended ca. 186 BCE when Ankhwennefer

Ankhmakis

Ankhmakis was the second Pharaoh of the rebel 35th dynasty, which controlled much of Upper Egypt during the reigns of Ptolemies IV and V...

 (his successor or more likely Horwennefer with a different nomen) was captured and executed.

Titles

• Prenomen: Titenre Setepnetjeru ("Image of Re, chosen of the Gods")
• Nomen: Adikhalamani with epithet Meryiset

Monuments and Inscriptions

Adikhalamani was buried at Meroe

Pyramids of Meroe (Begarawiyah)

Near Meroe three royal cemeteries were constructed.* South Cemetery features nine royal pyramids. Four of the pyramids belonged to Kings and five belonged to queens. One hundred ninety-five other tombs complete the cemetery....

in Beg. N 9.

Literature

• Laszlo Török, in: Fontes Historiae Nubiorum, Vol. II, Bergen 1996, 511-520, ISBN 8291626014