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An altar inscription written in Moabite and dated to 800 BCE was revealed in an excavation in Khirbat Ataruz. It was written using a variant of the Phoenician alphabet . [5] Most knowledge about Moabite comes from the Mesha Stele , [5] which is the only known extensive text in the language.
Created. c. 840 BCE. Discovered. 1868–70. Present location. Louvre. Identification. AO 5066. The Mesha Stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, is a stele dated around 840 BCE containing a significant Canaanite inscription in the name of King Mesha of Moab (a kingdom located in modern Jordan ).
Los moabitas, cuyo territorio se conocía como Moab (en hebreo: מוֹאָב , Môʾāḇ( tiberiano), Moʾav; en asirio Muʾaba, Maʾba o Maʾab; en egipcio Muʾab; en árabe: مؤاب , Muʾāb; en griego: Μωάβ, Mōáb o Μοαβῖτις, Moabitis ), fueron una civilización semita que vivía al este del mar Muerto, en la actual Jordania. 1 Se originó durante el Bronce Recie...
Moabite alphabet, eastern subdivision of the Canaanite branch of the early Semitic alphabet, closely related to the early Hebrew alphabet. The best-known example of the Moabite alphabet is from the Meshaʿ, or Moabite, Stone (Louvre, Paris), which was discovered in 1868 at Dibon, east of the Dead.
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The Moabite language was spoken in Moab. It was a Canaanite language closely related to Biblical Hebrew, Ammonite and Edomite, and was written using a variant of the Phoenician alphabet. Most of our knowledge of it comes from the Mesha Stele, which is the only known extensive text in this language.
Moabite †. Edomite †. Phoenician (incl. Punic) †. Glottolog. cana1267. The Canaanite languages, sometimes referred to as Canaanite dialects, [1] are one of three subgroups of the Northwest Semitic languages, the others being Aramaic and Amorite.
Together with about 20 known Proto-Canaanite inscriptions, it is also known as Early Alphabetic, i.e. the earliest trace of alphabetic writing and the common ancestor of both the Ancient South Arabian script and the Phoenician alphabet, which led to many modern alphabets including the Greek alphabet.
