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Moabite stone
Moabite stone Mo"ab*ite stone (Arch[ae]ol.) A block of black basalt, found at Dibon in Moab by Rev. F. A. Klein, Aug. 19, 1868, which bears an inscription of thirty-four lines, dating from the 9th century b. c., and written in the Moabite alphabet, the oldest Ph[oe]nician type of the Semitic alphabet. It records the victories of Mesha, king of Moab, esp. those over Israel (--2 Kings iii. 4, 5, 27).

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- The Mesha Stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, is a stele dated around 840 BCE containing a significant Canaanite inscription in the name of King Mesha...
- The Moabite language, also known as the Moabite dialect, is an extinct sub-language or dialect of the Canaanite languages, themselves a branch of Northwest...
- which describes the Moabite victory over an unnamed son of King Omri of Israel, an episode also noted in 2 Kings 3. The Moabite capital was Dibon. According...
- from that of Egyptian. One ancient do****ent is the famous Moabite Stone, written in the Moabite dialect; the Siloam inscription, found near Jerusalem, is...
- foundation of his re****tion by his involvement with the Mesha Stele (Moabite Stone),[citation needed] which bears the oldest Semitic inscription known...
- this entirely new category of "Moabite" artifacts. Since German archaeologists had not gained possession of the Moabite Stone, they rushed to buy the Shapira...
- the Iliad and Odyssey. c. 850 BC—Mesha erects the Mesha Stele, the Moabite Stone; the story is 34 lines, nearly complete and reveals the name 'Israel'...
- has a script ****ociated with it. List of individual rocks Mesha Stele – Moabite stele commemorating Mesha's victory over Israel (c. 840 BCE) Transliteration...
- in the Middle East. He is remembered for his 1868 discovery of the Moabite Stone, which dates from about 840 B.C. It gives qualified confirmation of...
- consolidated in small kingdoms during the Iron Age – such as the Ammonites, Moabites and Edomites, with partial areas controlled by the Israelites. In the classic...