Meroiticadj.n.

1852 tr. R. Lepsius Discov. in Egypt xx. 227 Three royal personages..had built the principal temples in Naga, Ben Naga and in Wadi Temêd, and belonged..to the most shining period of the Meroitic Empire.

1902 E. A. T. W. Budge Hist. Egypt VIII. 169 The Meroïtic inscriptions have not as yet been deciphered.

1934 A. Toynbee Study of Hist. II. 117 This Meroitic Power lived on, as a politically independent embodiment of the Egyptiac Society, until the third century of the Christian Era.

1955 A. J. Arkell Hist. Sudan vii. 160 The Meroitic hieroglyphic..script seems to have been invented on the basis partly of the Meroitic cursive script, and partly of Egyptian hieroglyphs.

1967 P. L. Shinnie Meroe vii. 156 The numerous finds of glass vessels imported as containers for oils and unguents as well as the mirrors show that Meroitic ladies, at least of the richer classes, took considerable trouble over their appearance.

1984 Antiquaries Jrnl. (1985) 65 531 Meroitic settlement in the central Sudan: an analysis of sites in the Nile Vally and the western Butana.

1852 Biblical Repertory Apr. 292 (note) On the Meroïtic and Nubian, as collateral with the Egyptian, Lepsius is the great authority.

1911 F. L. Griffith Karanòg vii. 83 It may be that, while Meroitic was the official language for writing, Nubian was the mother-tongue of Lower Nubia.

1911 A. H. Sayce in J. Garstang et al. Meroë ix. 50 Whether u^c was actually the word for ‘land’ in Meroitic is..uncertain.

1967 P. L. Shinnie Meroe v. 133 There is also just a hint that Meroitic may be related to the little-known group of languages known as Koman, now spoken in a limited area up the Blue Nile and around Jebel Gule.

1984 Times 26 Sept. 12/4 The finding this year of a three metre long lintel stone with an inscription in Meroitic that mentions a king of Ibrim suggests that it was a royal foundation.