| 单词 | mesha stone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMesha stone attributive. Designating a monument erected in the 9th cent. b.c. by Mesha, king of the Moabites, and bearing an early inscription in the Moabite language. Esp. in Mesha stone (also called Moabite stone: see Moabite adj.). ΚΠ 1881 W. R. Smith Old Test. in Jewish Church ii. Notes 393 This use of the vowel-consonants is found even on the stone of Mesha.] 1887 Athenæum 30 Apr. 577/1 M. Ranan writes the following to a correspondent who asked him to re-examine the Mesha monument in consequence of Mr. Löwy's article in the Scottish Review. 1932 W. F. Albright Archaeol. Palestine & Bible i. 28 The calendar tablet..dates from before 900 B.C., and is thus considerably older than the Mesha Stone. 1983 J. Hutchinson Lett. i. 38 The Mesha Stone was a large memorial stone that contained a record in ancient Phoenician symbols about the exploits of Mesha. < as lemmas |
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