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.
Moab
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Moab was an ancient Levantine kingdom whose territory is today located in southern Jordan. The land is mountainous and lies alongside much of the eastern shore of the Dead Sea. The existence of the Ki
Mesha Stele
…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 (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…
Moabite sarcophagus in Jordan Archaeological Museum in Amman
The Mesha stele describes King Mesha's wars against the Israelites
Al-Balu' Stele on display at the Jordan Museum.
Ruth in the fields of Boaz by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld