Online resources

Web sites of general interest

1. Meroïtic alphabet - Omniglot
   Meroitic section in Omniglot, the online encyclopedia on scripts and languages. Please note: Meroitic is not written using an alphabet.
   
2. Meroitic Hieroglyphs - ScriptSource
   Section devoted to hieroglyphic Meroitic including some general information and links to different fonts.
   

Online documents

1. Meroitic cursive - Trismegistos Language
   Trismegistos has now established itself as the portal par excellence regarding ancient writing systems. The cursive Meroitic page, includes some statistics and information about the texts in the database, which can be accessed only through paid membership.
   
2. Meroitic glyphs - Trismegistos Language
   Trismegistos has now established itself as the portal par excellence regarding ancient writing systems. The hieroglyphic Meroitic page includes some statistics and information about the texts in the database, which can be accessed only through paid membership.
   

Academic materials

1. Meroitic - ISAC Ancient Languages Workshop
   Presentation of Meroitic (with some grammar hints) by Brian Muhs, associate professor of Egyptology at the University of Chicago.
   

Texts

1. AA.VV., Histoire et civilisations du Soudan, 2017
   A nearly 1,000-page volume offered free of charge by Editions Soleb and written by some of the foremost experts on Sudan's history and culture (from prehistory to contemporary Sudan). Pages 330-373 are particularly interesting (“Hiéroglyphes africaines: à la recherche de la langue perdue de Méroé") edited by Claude Rilly.
   
2. Meroitic Writing - UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology
   Entry edited by Claude Rilly (2022).
   
3. AA.VV., Fontes Historiae Nubiorum, 1994
   From this page you can download the four volumes of the Fontes Historiae Nubiorum (1994, edited by Tormod Eide, Tormod, Tomas Hægg, Richard Holton Pierce, László Török), a collection of texts in Middle Egyptian, Demotic, Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Meroitic that are useful for understanding the history of Nubia and the Middle Nile Valley. II and III are the reference volumes for sources in Meroitic, with transcription, translation and commentary.

   
4. Répertoire d'épigraphie méroïtique, Tome I (REM 1-387)
   First volume of the complete collection of all the texts in the Meroitic language, edited by Jean Leclant, André Heyler, Catherine Berger-el Naggar, Claude Carrier, Claude Rilly, Publications de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Année 2000.
   
5. Répertoire d'épigraphie méroïtique, Tome II (REM 401-851)
   Second volume of the complete collection of all the texts in the Meroitic language, edited by Jean Leclant, André Heyler, Catherine Berger-el Naggar, Claude Carrier, Claude Rilly, Publications de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 2000.
   
6. Répertoire d'épigraphie méroïtique, Tome III (REM 1001-1278)
   Third volume of the complete collection of all the texts in the Meroitic language, edited by Jean Leclant, André Heyler, Catherine Berger-el Naggar, Claude Carrier, Claude Rilly, Publications de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Year 2000.
   

Fonts

1. Meroitic Hieroglyphics by Reinhold Kainhofer
   
   
2. Noto Sans Meroitic by Google Fonts
   
   
3. Meroitic Hieroglyphics Font by Font2U
   
   

Museums and collections

1. Meroitic Script - University College London
   Image et description de six objets portant des inscriptions méroïtiques provenant de la collection du Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology de l'University College London.
   
2. Boat stand of King Natakamani and the Candace Amanitore - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
   One of the pieces that made history in deciphering Meroitic writing.
   
3. Offering table of King Takideamani - Staatliche Museen Berlin
   An object of great importance for the history of deciphering cursive Meroitic, brought to Berlin by Richard Lepsius.