{"id":58,"date":"2013-04-10T20:15:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T20:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/?page_id=58"},"modified":"2013-05-24T13:40:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T17:40:13","slug":"moabite-stone-kai-181","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/course-materials\/rels-2104-hebrew-scripturesold-testament\/moabite-stone-kai-181\/","title":{"rendered":"Moabite Stone (KAI 181)"},"content":{"rendered":"

MOABITE INSCRIPTION<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>(KAI<\/em>\u00a0181)<\/span>
\nLouvre AO 5066<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

This English translation was prepared for the students in this course by three of my advanced Semitic languages students: William Downing, Gloria Campbell, and Jeff Couick.\u00a0 They used the photograph of the inscription found in Ren\u00e9 Dussaud,\u00a0Les monuments palestiniens et juda\u00efques<\/em>\u00a0(Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1912) and the transcriptions and lexical aids supplied in H[erbert]. Donner and W[olfgang]. R\u00f6llig,\u00a0Kanaan\u00e4ische und aram\u00e4ische Inschriften<\/em>\u00a0(3 vols.; Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1962-64), and J. C. L. Gibson,\u00a0Textbook of Syrian Semitic Inscriptions, Volume I: Hebrew and Moabite Inscriptions<\/em>\u00a0(Oxford: Clarendon, 1971).<\/p>\n

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\n(…) enclose words not present in the text but which improve the English sense<\/p>\n

I am Me\u0161\u2018a, son of Km\u0161[yt], king of Moab, the Dibeonite. My father was king over Moab (for) thirty years, and I assumed kingship after my father. I constructed this sanctuary to (the deity) Kemo\u0161 in Qeriho, a shrine of deliverance, because he delivered me from all who would cast (me) down, and because he granted me revenge against all my enemies.<\/p>\n

Omri was king of Israel, and he oppressed Moab (for) many days because Kemo\u0161 was angry with his land. His son succeeded him, and he said “Behold, I too will afflict Moab.” During my time he said [this?]. But I took vengeance upon him and upon his house, and Israel was utterly annihilated forever.<\/p>\n

Omri had taken possession of the whole of the land of Me(h)deba\u2019, and he dwelt there (during) his days and (during) a portion of his son\u2019s days\u2014forty years. But Kemo\u0161 restored it (to me) during my days. And I built Baal-Me\u2018on, and I fashioned a cistern within it, and I rebuilt Kiryatayin.<\/p>\n

The people of Gad had dwelt in the land of \u2018Ataroth from of old, and the king of Israel rebuilt \u2018Ataroth for himself.\u00a0 I did battle with the city and I captured it, and I killed all the people [\u2026] the city became (?) a possession of Kemo\u0161 and Moab. Then I removed from there its\u00a0\u2019r\u2019l dwdh<\/i>\u00a0and I dragged it before Kemo\u0161 at Kiryoth, and I settled within it the people of \u0160rn and the people of Mhrt.<\/p>\n

And Kemo\u0161 commanded me, “Go, seize Nebo from Israel!” I traveled by night and did battle with them from the break of day until noon. I seized it and slew everyone within it: seven thousand m[e]n [\u2026] and women [\u2026] and maidens because they were vowed as an offering to \u2018Ashtar-Kemo\u0161. I took from there [\u2026 ves]sels of (the deity) Yhwh and I dragged them before Kemo\u0161.<\/p>\n

Then the king of Israel fortified Yahatz and he remained there while preparing for his battle with me. But Kemo\u0161 drove him out before me. I took two hundred men from Moab, all its elite troops (?), and I led it (i.e., this force) against Yahatz and captured it, adding it to Dibon.<\/span><\/p>\n

I rebuilt Qeriho: the wall of the forests (?) and the wall of the hill. I rebuilt its gates and I rebuilt its towers and I rebuilt the royal palace, and I fashioned containers (?) (as) a ciste[rn for wat]er in the midst of the city. But there was no well within the city of Qeriho, so I commanded all the people, “Each one of you dig a pit in his house!” And I dug trenches (?) at Qeriho using Israelite prisoners.<\/p>\n

I rebuilt Aroer and I constructed the highway by the \u2019Arnon. I rebuilt the Beth-Bemoth because it was destroyed. I rebuilt Betzer because (it was) ruins with fifty men of Dibon, for all of Dibon was obedient (to me). I reigned as king over the hundreds in the towns which I annexed to the land (of Moab). I rebuilt [\u2026Mehd]eba, Beth-Dibalthim, and Beth Baal-Meon, and I raised up there my [\u2026..] [\u2026\u2026] the land and in Horanain\u00a0he settled in her [\u2026].<\/p>\n

Kemo\u0161 said to me, “Go down, do battle with Horanain!” So I went down [\u2026.] [\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026] And Kemo\u0161 restored [it to me] during my days. And [\u2026] from there [\u2026]\u00a0remainder illegible<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MOABITE INSCRIPTION\u00a0\u00a0(KAI\u00a0181) Louvre AO 5066 This English translation was prepared for the students in this course by three of my advanced Semitic languages students: William Downing, Gloria Campbell, and Jeff Couick.\u00a0 They used the photograph of the inscription found in Ren\u00e9 Dussaud,\u00a0Les monuments palestiniens et juda\u00efques\u00a0(Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1912) and the transcriptions and lexical aids […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":454,"featured_media":0,"parent":44,"menu_order":40,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-58","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3kl1F-W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions\/821"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}