Meroitic

Script Details

Meroitic

An inscription from inside of of the Pyramids of Meroe

By Ahmed Amir - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=94916930

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Https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Kushite_heartland_and_Kushite_Empire_of_the_25th_dynasty_circa_700_BCE.jpg "Kushite heartland and Kushite Empire of the 25th dynasty circa 700 BCE" by Lommes licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

DISCLAIMER: This script is still being researched

Data

Alternate Names Meroitic Hieroglyphics, Meroitic Cursive
ISO 15924 100 Mero
Type Abugida
Family Nilo-Saharan
Direction RtL, occasionally in columns
Diacritics No
Glyphs 23
Earliest Location Sudan
Earliest Date 31 BCE
Latest Date 400 CE
Ancestry

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Coulmas, Florian 1999 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 337 Blackwell Publishing
Riley, Claude 2011 Recent Research on the Meroitic, the Ancient Language of Sudan ITYOPIS
Ritner, Robert 1996 The World's Writing Systems, Meroitic, 84-86 Oxford University Press