Moabite Stone
a stone bearing an inscription of 34 lines in Hebrew- Phoenician letters, discovered by the Rev.
F. Klein in 1868 among the ruins of Dhibân, the ancient Dibon. The stone was of black basalt, rounded at the top and bottom, 2 feet broad, 3 feet 10 inches high, and 14½ inches in thickness. Now stands in the Louvre at Paris. The inscription was discovered to be a record of Mesha, King of Moab, mentioned in II Kings, iii., referring to his successful revolt against the King of Israel. The characters of the inscription are Phenician.