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 The stele is roughly 60 cm wide and 60 cm thick, carved in durable black basalt. It provides one of the earliest extra-biblical attestations to figures and places mentioned in the Old Testament and offers a Moabite perspective on Israel-Moab relations in the 9th century BC. The stele is roughly 60 cm wide and 60 cm thick, carved in durable black basalt. It provides one of the earliest extra-biblical attestations to figures and places mentioned in the Old Testament and offers a Moabite perspective on Israel-Moab relations in the 9th century BC.
  
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 ===== Discovery and Preservation ===== ===== Discovery and Preservation =====
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