Merotic
Alternative form of Meroic.
Adjective
- Alternative form of Meroic.
- Merotic Script of Kimit (Egypt) introduced: An indigenous Nile Valley African form of communication through written words, in many ways very similar to Egyptian Demotic Script. - 1988, Yosef Ben-Jochannan, Africa:...
- The Merotic people adopted an African-style matriarchal regime and set up a dynasty of queens, known collectively as the Candaces. - 2009, Guida M. Jackson, Women Leaders of Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Pacific,...
- After the decline of the Merotic polity in the fourth century, the vacuum in the north was filled by a successor polity known as the X group or Ballana culture (Edwards 2004: 195–201). - 2010, Liz James, A Companion to...