Arqamani#Diodorus Siculus story of Ergamenes

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

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 point of focus in the Meroitic history. In Greek philosophy, educated, Ergamenes disobeyed the command of the ruling priest to be killed ritually, and let them make themselves down.

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