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    The Tel Dan Stele is a fragmentary stele containing a Canaanite inscription which dates to the 9th century BCE. It is notable for possibly being the most...
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    the tribe of Dan. The city is identified with a tell located in Upper Galilee, northern Israel, known as Tel Dan (תל דן‎; "Mound of Dan") in Hebrew. The...
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    the others being the Mesha Stele, the Tel Dan Stele, and the Kurkh Monoliths. Consequently, some consider the Merneptah Stele to be Petrie's most famous...
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    containing the name of Israel, the others being the Merneptah Stele, the Tel Dan Stele, and one of the Kurkh Monoliths. Its authenticity has been disputed...
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    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...
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    king Ben-Hadad II, probably identical to Hadadezer mentioned in the Tel Dan Stele, was ill and sent his court official Hazael with gifts to Elijah's successor...
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    Jehu (section Tel Dan Stele)
    Phoenicia and Judah, and became subject to Assyria. The author of the Tel Dan Stele (9th century BCE, found in 1993 and 1994) claimed to have slain both...
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    come. Very little is conclusively known about the House of David. The Tel Dan Stele mentions the death of the reigning king from "BYTDWD", (interpreted...
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  • Mesha to throw off the yoke of Israel and restore the lands of Moab. Tel Dan Stele was discovered in 1993-94 and was created in 870–750 BCE. It consists...
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    later), David ascended the throne as the king of Judah in 885 BCE. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damascus in the...
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    limited to small rural settlements, most of them unfortified. The Tel Dan Stele, discovered in 1993, shows that the kingdom, at least in some form,...
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    8:28. Tel Dan Stele, a fragmentary stele from the 9th century BCE was discovered in 1993 (first fragment) and 1994 (two smaller fragments) in Tel-Dan. The...
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  • names cannot be ruled out however. Ahaziah/Amaziah, King of Judah. The Tel Dan Stele contains, according to many scholars, an account by a Syrian king (probably...
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    Kings 18:13. In 1993, at Tel Dan, archaeologist Avraham Biran unearthed a fragmentary Aramaic inscription, the Tel Dan stele, dated to the late ninth...
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  • references to the House of David have been found at two sites, the Tel Dan Stele and the Mesha Stele. Yigael Yadin's excavations at Hazor, Megiddo, Beit Shean...
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    Kurkh Monoliths (category 9th-century BC steles)
    the name of Israel, the others being the Merneptah Stele, the Tel Dan Stele, and the Mesha Stele. This description is also the oldest document that mentions...
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    Biran's most important discovery at the Tel was an inscription on a slab of basalt, known as the Tel Dan Stele, that consists of 13 lines in ancient Canaanite...
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    most important find is the Tel Dan Stele, a black basalt stele, whose fragments were discovered in 1993 and 1994. The stele was erected by an Aramaean...
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    end. Jehu claimed the throne of Israel as his own. The author of the Tel Dan Stele claimed to have slain both Ahaziah and Jehoram. Hazael is the most likely...
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    Ben Hadad. Another important discovery of the period is the Mesha Stele, a Moabite stele found in Dhiban when Emir Sattam Al-Fayez led Henry Tristram to...
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  • An Aramean king's account dating at least two centuries later, the Tel Dan Stele, was discovered in northern Israel and is famous for being perhaps the...
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    The Tel Dan Stele with reference to the "House of David"...
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    archaeological evidence cast some doubt on this account. The author of the Tel Dan Stele (usually identified as King Hazael of Damascus (c.842–806 BCE)) appears...
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    identical words, uses the name Jehoram. This episode is described in the Tel Dan stele, likely erected by Hazael. According to 2 Kings 8:16, Jehoram became...
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  • Iraq Hassanlu, Iran Zywieh, Iran Bukan, Iran Taite, Syria Mesha Stele, Israel Tel Dan Stele, Israel Halicarnassos, Turkey Knidos, Turkey Miletus, Turkey...
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    BCE: 169–195  and that the Kingdom of Judah existed by ca. 700 BCE. The Tel Dan Stele, discovered in 1993, shows that the kingdom, at least in some form,...
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  • United Monarchy in the 10th century BCE. Since the discovery of the Tel Dan Stele dated to the 9th or 8th century BCE containing bytdwd, interpreted by...
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  • are visible in the Mesha Stele inscription, commissioned around 840 BCE by King Mesha of Moab. Similarly, the Tel Dan Stele, dated approximately 810 BCE...
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  • Deir Alla Inscription. Finally the prefix preterite, appeared in the Tel Dan stele with and without the sequential conjunction. This feature is absent...
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  • Hazael, and the cities to the time of the Omride kings. The Tel Dan Stele, the Mesha Stele, the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser, and direct evidence from...
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