Moabite Stone
This royal inscription, dating to the mid 9th century BCE, recorded King Mesha's gratitude to the god Chemosh for delivering Moab from Israelite control. The inscription references the dynasty of Omri in Israel, and might (like the Tel Dan Stele) refer to the "the house of David," an expression meaning David's dynasty. This is the longest royal inscription known from the Holy Land. It was discovered intact in 1868 at Dibon (an important city in Moab) by a Protestant missionary. However, Bedouins heated the stone and poured water on it, breaking it into hundreds of pieces. Fortunately, just prior to this, the French scholar Clemont-Ganneau made a rubbing of the text. Using this rubbing and the recovered fragments, scholars were able to reconstruct much of the inscription. The Moabite Stone now resides in the Louvre in Paris.
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