Meroic

• Meroitic, Merotic

From Meroe +‎ -ic.

Meroic (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the ancient African civilization south of Egypt with the capital city Meroë.
   • 1977, G Billy, “Population changes in Egypt and Nubia”, in Journal of Human Evolution:

     Group C, contemporaneous with the Middle Empire, underwent, on the contrary, an opposite current of negroid influence as we have already emphasized and which increases in intensity starting with the Meroic era (cFigure 2).

   • 1981, Thomas T. Spear, Kenya's past: an introduction to historical method in Africa, →ISBN, page 19:

     The ultimate origins of iron in east Africa, then, must remain conjectural, though a spread from Meroe up the Nile to the Lake Victoria region is the most plausable route at the moment, and Meroic furnaces and tool styles are similar to those in East Africa.

   • 1996, Vashti M. McKenzie, Not Without a Struggle:

     The legacy of African female leadership continued in a line of independent female rulers called Candaces (Kantake) of Ethiopia during the Meroic period (1000 B.C.E.-1000 C.E.).

2. Alternative form of Meroitic
   • 1978, Africa Quarterly - Volume 18, page 16:

     In 1974 (28th January to 3rd February), a seminar was held in Cairo under the auspices of UNESCO where some twenty specialists came together to discuss the settlement of ancient Egypt and the deciphering of the Meroic language.

   • 2008, Samuel Alfayo Nyanchoga, Samson Moenga Omwoyo, Ben N. Nyariki, Aspects of African history, page 62:

     The Meroic Script indigenized the Egyptian hieroglyphic writing and invented an alphabet of 23 letters, containing details of correspondence between the central government and provinces, trade and administrative matters.

• Comrie, Cromie, Moceri, morice