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Mesha Stele
Stele set up around 840 BCE by King Mesha of Moab
Details
- Instance of
- stele, inscription, discovered text, archaeological find, sculpture, archaeological artefact
- Inception
- 840 BCE
- Location
- Room 303
- Country
- Jordan
- Owned by
- French State
- Creator
- Mesha
- Material
- basalt
- characters
- Mesha, Omri, Chemosh, Tetragrammaton
- commissioned by
- Mesha
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- discoverer or inventor
- Frederick Augustus Klein
- has edition or translation
- The Inscription on the Stele of Méšaʿ
- height
- 100 cm
- inventory number
- AO 5066
- language of work or name
- Moabite
- location of discovery
- Dhiban
- thickness
- 37 cm
- time of discovery or invention
- 1868
- vertical depth
- 60 cm
- width
- 60 cm
- writing system
- Paleo-Hebrew alphabet
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