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The Moabite Stone A Facsimile of the Original Inscription (PDF). Reeves and Turner. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 March 2012. King, James (1878). Moab's Patriarchal Stone: being an account of the Moabite stone, its story and teaching. Bickers and Son. Lemaire, André (2007). "The Mesha Stele and the Omri Dynasty". In Grabbe, Lester L ...
The two main sources for the existence and history of King Mesha are the Mesha Stele and the Hebrew Bible.. Per the Mesha Stele, Mesha's father was also a king of Moab.His name is not totally preserved in the inscription, only the theophoric first element Chemosh(-...) surviving; throughout the years scholars have proposed numerous reconstructions, including Chemosh-gad, [2] Chemosh-melek, [3 ...
During the Iron Age, several Moabite cultic sites have been found in places such as Deir Alla, Damiyah, Ataruz or Khirbet al-Mudayna. [24] According to II Kings, at times, especially in dire peril, human sacrifices were offered to Chemosh, as by Mesha, who gave up his son and heir to him (2 Kings 3:27).
Seal of Manasseh – Stone seal of Manasseh, King of Judah c.687–642 BC. Reportedly offered to a private collector for one million dollars. [70] Seals of Baruch – controversial bullae allegedly belonging to Baruch, son of Neriah. Suspected to be forgeries. [71] Seal of Ahaz – Some scholars stipulate that this is in fact a forgery. [72]
Chemosh (Moabite: 𐤊𐤌𐤔 , romanized: Kamōš; Biblical Hebrew: כְּמוֹשׁ, romanized: Kəmōš) is a Canaanite deity worshipped by Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples who occupied the region known in the Hebrew Bible as Moab, in modern-day Jordan east of the Dead Sea, during the Levantine Bronze and Iron Ages.
An altar inscription written in Moabite and dated to 800 BC was revealed in an excavation in Khirbat Ataruz. [4] It was written using a variant of the Phoenician alphabet. [5] Most knowledge about Moabite comes from the Mesha Stele, [5] which is the only known extensive text in the language.
In 1869, members of the Bani Hamida shattered the recently discovered Moabite Stone into pieces by lighting a fire under it and then pouring cold water over it. The stele was discovered by Henry Baker Tristram on his trip with Sheikh Sattam Al-Fayez when they visited the Bani Hamida's territory.
Mesha Stele describes the oppression of Moab by Omri, king of Israel, and the Moabite victory over his unnamed son, probably referring to Ahab The Mesha Stele bears a Moabite inscription of about 840 BCE by Mesha , ruler of Moab, in which Mesha tells of the oppression of Moab by "Omri king of Israel" and his son after him, and boasts of his own ...