(a West Semitic Language) |Medium:||basalt stone stele|
|Size:||1.15 meters high 60-68 centimeters wide |Length:||35
lines of writing| |Honoree:||Mesha, king of Moab (late 9th
century BCE) |Approximate Date:||830 BCE| |Place of
Discovery:||Dhiban [in modern Jordan]| |Date of Discovery:||1868
|Current Location:||Louvre Museum |Inventory number:||AO 5066
(click for museum image and description) by K. C. Hanson
(Adapted from Albright 1969:320-21) Omri was the king of Israel,
and he oppressed Moab for many days, for Kemosh was angry with
his land. And his son reigned in his place; and he also said, "I
will oppress Moab!" In my days he said so. But I looked down on
him and on his house, and Israel has been defeated; it has been
defeated forever! And Omri took possession of the whole land of
Medeba, and he lived there in his days and half the days of his
son: forty years. But Kemosh restored it in my days. And I built
Baal-Meon, and I built a water reservoir in it. And I built
Qiryaten. And the men of Gad lived in