Mesha Stele
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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 of Moab. Mesha tells how Chemosh, the god of
The Mesha Stele at the Louvre: The brown fragments are pieces of the original stele, whereas the smoother black material is Ganneau's reconstruction from the 1870s.
Detail of a portion of lines 12–16, reconstructed from the squeeze. The middle line (14), transliterated as:את. נבה. על. ישראל ( ʔt nbh ʕl yšrʔl )reads "[Take] Nabau against Israel"
A replica of the stele on display at the Jordan Archaeological Museum in Amman, 70 km north of its original location in Dhiban.
Chemosh
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Chemosh is a Canaanite deity worshipped by Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples who occupied the region known as Moab, in modern-day Jordan east of the Dead Sea, during the Levantine Bronze and Iron Ages.
Mesha Stele
…around 840 BCE containing a significant Canaanite inscription in the name of King Mesha of Moab (a kingdom located in modern Jordan). Mesha tells how Chemosh, the god of Moab, had been angry with his people and had allowed them to be subjugated to the Kingdom of Israel, but at length, Chemosh returned and…
Possible depiction of Chemosh as a warrior god on the Shihan stele
The Al-Balu' Stele, depicting a god, possibly Chemosh, handing a scepter to a Moabite king wearing a Shasu headdress.