The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moabite stone
Moabite stone \Mo"ab*ite stone\ (Arch[ae]ol.)
A block of black basalt, found at Dibon in Moab by Rev. F. A.
Klein, Aug. 19, 1868, which bears an inscription of
thirty-four lines, dating from the 9th century b. c., and
written in the Moabite alphabet, the oldest Ph[oe]nician type
of the Semitic alphabet. It records the victories of Mesha,
king of Moab, esp. those over Israel (
--2 Kings iii. 4, 5,
27).