merotic

adj

1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable)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.”

   “The Merotic people adopted an African-style matriarchal regime and set up a dynasty of queens, known collectively as the Candaces.”

   “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).”