Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Moabite stone \Mo"ab*ite stone\ (Arch[ae]ol.)
   A block of black basalt, found at Dibon in Moab by Rev. F. A.
   Klein, Aug. 19, 1868, which bears an inscription of
   thirty-four lines, dating from the 9th century b. c., and
   written in the Moabite alphabet, the oldest Ph[oe]nician type
   of the Semitic alphabet. It records the victories of Mesha,
   king of Moab, esp. those over Israel (--2 Kings iii. 4, 5,
   27).