Meroitic Cursive Number Eight Thousand

It means eight thousand (8,000). Meroitic numerals recorded taxes, measures, and dates in Kush.

Meroitic writing was used from around the second century BCE through the fourth century CE; its earliest known forms date to the late 2nd century BCE, during King Taneyidamani’s reign—not necessarily this sign’s first use. Cursive Meroitic was related to Ptolemaic Demotic, an Egyptian cursive script; some numerals resemble late Hieratic, another Egyptian writing style. By the sixth century, Coptic and Ethiopic numeral systems were used regionally as Meroitic notation faded.