cast; stela

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Object Type: cast; stela
Museum number: C.204.A
Title: Object: The Moabite Stone; Object: The Mesha Stele
Description: Plaster cast of the so-called "Moabite stone" of Mesha, king of Moab; rounded top; flat inscribed face; broken in antiquity.
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Dhiban
Materials: plaster
Technique: mould-made
Dimensions: Height: 125 centimetres; Width: 72 centimetres; Depth: 36 centimetres
Curator's comments: The original stela is in the Louvre (inv. no. AO 5066).
Bibliographic references: Gibson J C L 1971a / Textbook of Syrian Semitic Inscriptions: Hebrew and Moabite Inscriptions (pp.71-83); Dussaud R 1912a / Les monuments Palestiniens and Judaïques (Moab, Judée, Philistie, Samarie, Galilée); Lidzbarski M 1898 / Handbuch der nordsemitischen Epigraphik (vol. II, pl. I)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: Room of Writing, north-east corner (1980)
Associated names: Representation of: Mesha, King of Moab
Acquisition name: Donated by: Musée du Louvre, Paris
Acquisition date: 1883
Acquisition notes: Report to Trustees, 8 December 1883; described in BM Return for 1884 (p.26) as "Cast of the Moabite Stone. Presented by the Louvre, Paris" and it also reports that it was mounted soon after acquisition.
Department: Middle East
Registration number: C.204.A
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 262 (exhibition number); Miscellaneous number: AO 5066 (Louvre number for the original stela)

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