In translating the two different inscriptions included in this appendix, I depend partly on Gibson (1975) and Hallo and Younger (2000). Yet I have made many personal changes. What I have put in bold are the lines that are of greater importance for the subject of this paper.

I. THE MESHA STELE

1. I am Mesha, son of Kemosh[-yatti], the king of Moab, the Di

2. bonite. My father had reigned over Moab for thirty years, and I reign

3. ed after my father. And I made this high-place for Kemosh in Karhoh, […]

4. because he has delivered me from all kings, and because he has caused me to look down on all my enemies. Omr

5. i was the king of Israel, and he oppressed Moab for many days, for Kemosh was angry with his la

6. nd. And his son succeeded him, and he said too: “I will oppress Moab in my days”. He said [so].

7. But I looked down on him and on his house; and Israel was destroyed, yes, it was destroyed for ever. And Omri has conquered the who[le lan]

8. d of Medabah, and he lived there (in) his days and half the days of his son; fourty years, but Kemosh [resto]

9. red it in my days. And I built Baal-Meon, and I made in it a water reser-voir, and I built

10. […]