Baines/Disappearance of Writing Systems, 8. The Last Traces of Meroitic?

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How to Cite: Rilly, Claude. The Last Traces of Meroitic? A Tentative Scenario for the Disappearance of the Meroitic Script. The Disappearance of Writing Systems - Perspectives on Literacy and Communication. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 183 - 205 Sep 2008. ISBN 9781845539078.

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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).

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    The Disappearance of Writing Systems: Perspectives on Literacy and Communication
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    Claude Rilly
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    9781845535872 (eBook)
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    Equinox Publishing Ltf.
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    Sheffield, United Kingdom
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    https://doi.org/10.1558/isbn.9781845535872