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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

foundation of his reputation by his involvement with the Mesha Stele (Moabite Stone),[citation needed] which bears the oldest Semitic inscription known

from that of Egyptian. One ancient document is the famous Moabite Stone, written in the Moabite dialect; the Siloam inscription, found near Jerusalem, is

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

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'

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

centuries. Al-Fayez would introduce Henry to the Moabite stone which was in the vassal Bani Hamida lands. The stone was a great discovery, and after strained

Bible. Sheffield Phoenix Press. pp. 112–134. ISBN 978-1-914490-02-6. "Biblical Archaeology 4: The Moabite Stone (a.k.a. Mesha Stele)". 15 July 2011.

has a script associated with it. List of individual rocks Mesha Stele – Moabite stele commemorating Mesha's victory over Israel (c. 840 BCE) Multilingual