Moabitica

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Moabitica (pl. From Latin Moabiticum = Moabitisches) or Pseudo-Moabitica are inscriptions in Northwest Semitic ( Canaanite ) languages ​​or archaeological artifacts that appeared in large numbers around 1870 after the discovery of the Mescha stele and were quickly identified by serious research as forgeries recognized. The name refers to the ancient Moab landscape in the East Bank, where the Mescha stele was found in 1868 .

The Moabitica probably also includes the inscription of Paraíba in the Phoenician language , which appeared in Brazil in 1873 .

The Jerusalem antique dealer Moses Wilhelm Shapira (1830-1884), who had sold counterfeit Moabite clay pots to the Prussian Ministry of Culture, later shot himself when further forgeries were exposed.

Quote

"The Moabitica are scarecrows, which keep clever sparrows away from the good fruits"

- Eduard Meyer

literature

  • Albert Socin : About forgery of inscriptions. In: Journal of the German Oriental Society. 27 (1873), ISSN  0341-0137 , pp. 133-135, online .
  • Charles Clermont-Ganneau : The Shapira Collection . In: Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement 5 (1874), pp. 114-124 and pp. 201-207
  • Konstantin Schlottmann : About the ugliness of the Moabite antiquities. In: Journal of the German Oriental Society. 28 (1874), pp. 171-184 online .
  • Ludwig Diestel : The Moabite antiquities. In: Yearbooks for German Theology. 21 (1876), pp. 451-473, online .
  • Emil Kautzsch , Albert Socin: The authenticity of the Moabite antiquities. Trübner, Strasbourg et al. 1876.
  • Charles Clermont-Ganneau: Les fraudes archéologiques en Palestine suivies de quelques monuments phéniciens apocryphes. Leroux, Paris 1885 ( Bibliothèque orientale elzévirienne 40, ZDB -ID 1219925-4 ).
  • Oskar K. Rabinowicz: The Shapira forgery mystery. In: Jewish Quarterly Review. 47 (1956/57), ISSN  0021-6682 , pp 170-183.
  • Oskar K. Rabinowicz: The Shapira Scroll: A Nineteenth-Century Forgery. In: Jewish Quarterly Review. 56, pp. 1-21 (1965).
  • Andreas Reichert: Julius Euting, the Pseudo-Moabitica and 'La petite fille de Jérusalem.' New finds from an old affair. In: Christl Maier (Ed.): Exegesis on site. Festschrift for Peter Welten on his 65th birthday. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2001, pp. 335–367.
  • Christopher A. Rollston: Non-Provenanced Epigraphs. Part I and II. In: Maarav. 10 (2003), ISSN  0149-5712 , pp. 135-193, and 11 (2004), pp. 57-79.