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The Tel Dan Stele is a fragmentary stele containing an Aramaic inscription which dates to the 9th century BCE. It is the earliest known extra-biblical archaeological reference to the house of David. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The stele was discovered in 1993 in Tel-Dan by Gila Cook, a member of an archaeological team led by Avraham Biran.
The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land. Vol. 1. Israel Exploration Society, Carta Jerusalem. pp. 255–259. ISBN 965-220-209-6. ^ Stripling, Scott (2023). Excavations at Khirbet el-Maqatir, Israel, 1995–2000 and 2009–2016. Vol 2: The Late Hellenistic, Early Roman, and Byzantine Periods. Archaeopress.
The American naval officer William F. Lynch was the first to identify Tell el-Qadi as the site of the ancient city of Dan in 1849. [12] Three years later, Edward Robinson made the same identification, [13] and this identification is now securely accepted. [2] Tel Dan is the modern Israeli name for the site, based on the original Biblical name. [5]
The Mesha Stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, is a steledated around 840 BCE containing a significant Canaanite inscriptionin the name of King Meshaof Moab(a kingdom located in modern Jordan). Mesha tells how Chemosh, the god of Moab, had been angry with his people and had allowed them to be subjugated to the Kingdom of Israel, but at ...
Tel Dan Finds at the site date back to the Neolithic era circa 4500 BCE, and include 0.8 meter wide walls and pottery shards. The most important find is the Tel Dan Stele , a black basalt stele , whose fragments were discovered in 1993 and 1994.
The Merneptah Stele was discovered in Thebes and is currently housed in Cairo, Egypt. The Merneptah Stele, also known as the Israel Stele or the Victory Stele of Merneptah, is an inscription by Merneptah, a pharaoh in ancient Egypt who reigned from 1213 to 1203 BCE. Discovered by Flinders Petrie at Thebes in 1896, it is now housed at the ...
The author of the inscription on the Tel Dan Stele (fragments of which were found in 1993 and 1994 during archaeological excavations of the site of Tel Dan) claimed to have slain both the king of the House of David in Judah, Ahaziah, and the king of Israel, Jehoram. The most likely author of this monument is Hazael of the Arameans.
Tel Dan stele; Tell al-Rimah stela; V. Victory Stela of Merneptah; Victory stele of Esarhaddon; W. White Obelisk This page was last edited on 15 September 2015 ...