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 |
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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 |
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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 |