Stone, Moabite
A basalt monument now in the Louvre, which was erected by Mesa (4 Kings 3), King of Moab , to commemorate his victories over Israel. Discovered in 1868 at Dhiban (Dibon) in the Land of Moab , it is about 3 feet 8 inches by 2 feet 3 inches, and 14 inches thick, bearing 34 lines of writing, in which Mesa gives the chief events of his reign; of great historical and geographical importance, and one of the oldest inscriptions in the North Semitic alphabet.