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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.
Around this time, the Tel Dan stele was created by the Aramaeans, during one of the periods of their control of Dan. When the Assyrian empire expanded to the south, the kingdom of Israel initially became a vassal state, but after rebelling, the Assyrians invaded and the town fell to Tiglath-Pileser III in 733/732 BCE.
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 ...
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 Tel Dan Stele, with mention of the "House of David" highlighted in white. Very little is conclusively known about the House of David. The Tel Dan Stele mentions the death of the reigning king from "BYTDWD", [6] (interpreted as "House of David") and thus far is the only extrabiblical explicit mention of David himself. The stele is dated to ...
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.
Kudurru. Babylonian kudurru of the late Kassite period found near Baghdad by the French botanist André Michaux (Cabinet des Médailles, Paris) A kudurru was a type of stone document used as a boundary stone and as a record of land grants to vassals by the Kassites and later dynasties in ancient Babylonia between the 16th and 7th centuries BC ...
Sargon Stele; Sefire steles; Shabaka Stone; Stela of the cactus bearer; T. Tel Dan stele; Tell al-Rimah stela; Tünp Stele; V. Veliisa Stele; Z. Stele of Zakkur