Moabite Stone, or Mesha Stele, cast
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 Nov 1899
name: label: Donor Name
content: Palestine Exploration Fund
label: Site Name
content: Dibon (Dhiban)
notes: label: Notes
content: Text in Moabite language. Original found in 1868 by the Reverend F. A. (Frederick Augustus) Klein.
label: Notes
content: From card: "Original black basalt at Louvre, Paris. Ill. S.I. Rep., 1922, Casanowicz, pl. 7." This illustration can be viewed online here: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15654743 .
label: Notes
content: Plaster cast of the so-called "Moabite stone", or "Mesha stele" of Mesha, king of Moab; c. 800 BC; rounded top; flat inscribed face; broken in antiquity. The original stela is in the Louvre (inv. no. AO 5066). The stele is a smoothed block of basalt approximately one meter tall, 60 cm wide and 60 cm thick, bearing a surviving inscription of 34 lines.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 8
place: label: Place
content: Dhiban, Madaba Governorate, Jordan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Moabite
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 035833
label: USNM Number
content: A130117-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cast
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 51 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 1 m
label: Width - Object
content: 140 cm