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Irike-Piye-qo. Evidence for reign.
The Sources
King Irike-Piye-qo is attested in an inscription erected by his successor Sabrakamani
(Kawa XIII, see 96). His filiation and family relations are unknown. The
name contains the components Piye, written as the name of his great predecessor
(see FHN I, (5)) and meaning perhaps "king" in later Kushite usage,219 and
Irike, which in Meroitic (yerike) has the meaning "begotten of". Accordingly,
following Macadam's suggestion (ibid.), Irike-Piye may be interpreted as "Begotten
of the King". The name is complemented with the element -qo, which
occurs in a great number of Kushite royal names as well as in the preserved
non-royal name material of the Meroitic period (for the evidence, and the
grammatical ambiguities connected with the use of -qo as a suffix see Hofmann
1981, 52 ff.). Its meaning is obscure.
As a consequence of the dating of Sabrakamani's inscription to the first half
of the 3rd century BC (see (90)), his predecessor Irike-Piye-qo is allotted an approximate
date in the early 3rd century BC. His burial place is unknown. In the
literature various graves in the Gebel Barkal necropolis have been associated
with him (Dunham 1957, 6: Bar. 18; Hintze 1959, 23 and Hofmann 1978, 35: Bar.
15; Hintze 1962, 19: Bar. 11; Wenig 1967, 42: Bar. 14); all these attributions are,
however, mere guesswork.
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Sabrakamani. Titles. Evidence for reign.
Titles
Source: Kawa XIII(96).
Throne name
Son-of-Rê name
H,-m-[N]p(t)
"Appearing-in-Napata"
Sbrk-Imn
Evidence for reign
Sabrakamani's reign is attested only by his Kawa inscription (96) which belongs
to a small group of texts from Kawa generally dated to the first half of the 3rd
century BC (cf. (90)). He has a place in the relative chronology of the rulers only
insofar as he mentions his predecessor Irike-Piye-qo (see (94)) in his inscription.
The suggestions concerning his burial place are completely hypothetical
(Dunham 1957, 6: Bar. 7; Hintze 1959, 23: Bar. 18; Hintze 1962, 19: Bar. 14; Wenig
1967, 42: Bar. 15; Hofmann 1978, 68 and TOrök 1988, 178: Bar. 7).
219Cf. Macadam 1949, 73; for names of Kushite queens consisting of the element Pj see Leclant
1982, 1047 f. note 1.
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