Moabite Stone | ancient stela, Moab kingdom (original) (raw)

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• history of Moabites
  • In Moabite
    …reconquest is known from the Moabite Stone, a stela that the Moabite king Mesha erected about 40 years later in the city of Dibon (modern Dhiban, Jordan). This black basalt stone, 1.1 m (44 inches) high, was discovered at Dhiban in 1868 and is now in the Louvre Museum in…
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• mention of Chemosh
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    In Chemosh
    On the famous Moabite Stone, written by Meshaʿ, a 9th-century bc king of Moab, Chemosh received prominent mention as the deity who brought victory to the Moabites in their battle against the Israelites.
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discovery in

• Dibon
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    In Dibon
    …in 1868 of the so-called Moabite Stone, bearing an inscription of Mesha, king of Moab, about the 9th century bce; its 34-line inscription commemorates a victory over the Israelites that reestablished the independence of Moab.
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• Jordan
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    In Jordan: Biblical associations
    …period is the Mesha (or Moabite) Stone found at Dhībān in 1868, now in the Louvre Museum in Paris. It is inscribed in an eastern form of Canaanite, closely akin to Hebrew.
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use of

• Moabite alphabet
  • In Moabite alphabet
    The best-known example of the Moabite alphabet is from the Meshaʿ, or Moabite, Stone (Louvre, Paris), which was discovered in 1868 at Dibon, east of the Dead Sea. The stone bears a 34-line inscription of Meshaʿ, king of Moab, dating from the middle of the 9th century bc. Until the…
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• Semitic script
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    In calligraphy: Early Semitic writing
    The so-called Moabite Stone (also in the Louvre), which dates from about 850 bce, has an inscription that is also a famous example of early Semitic writing.
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