A worn fragment of a stela discovered at GEBEL ADDA in NUBIA, modern Sudan, inscribed with demotic and the Meroitic hieratic scripts. Despite lapses, the Adda Stone provided keys to the translation of Meroitic, the language of the Nubian culture that dominated that region from c. 270 B.C.E. until 360 C.E.
Adea-Eurydice (fl. fourth century B.C.E.) Royal woman of the Greeks
She was the wife of PHILIP III ARRHIDAEUS (r. 323–316 B.C.E.), the half brother of ALEXANDER III THE GREAT. Adea- Eurydice was a half niece of Philip and joined in the plot to slay him. She died in a similar purge conducted by the heirs of Alexander the Great.
