The Last Traces of Meroitic? A Tentative Scenario for the Disappearance of the Meroitic Script
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1. | Title | Title of document | The Last Traces of Meroitic? A Tentative Scenario for the Disappearance of the Meroitic Script - The Disappearance of Writing Systems |
2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Claude Rilly; CNRS-LLACAN; France |
3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Linguistics; History |
4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | ancient writing; Meroitic language; linguistics; history |
5. | Subject | Subject classification | P121-149 Science of language (Linguistics); P101-410 Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar |
6. | Description | Abstract | Meroitic was the language of the successive kingdoms of Kush, the Ancient Sudan, along the Middle Nile, roughly from the first Cataract upstream to the Khartoum Reach (see Fig. 8.1). Although this language was not written with a script of its own before its latest stage, in the Kingdom of Meroe (c. 300 BC–AD 350), I have presented evidence for its having appeared altogether earlier in the Nile Valley (Rilly 2001). |
7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 01-Sep-2008 |
10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
11. | Type | Type | historical and methodological study |
12. | Format | File format | |
13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/18956 |
14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.18956 |
15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; The Disappearance of Writing Systems |
16. | Language | English=en | en |
18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
Middle Nile; Kingdom of Kush, 400- 300 BCE and onwards |
19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |