Merneptah Stele
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memorial plaque by Merneptah who ruled Egypt between 1213 and 1203 BC
Key facts
- Material
- Granite
- Writing
- Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs
- Created
- c. 1208 BCE
- Discovered by
- Flinders Petrie
- Present location
- Egyptian Museum , Cairo
- Identification
- JE 31408
- Period
- New Kingdom of Egypt
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- stele
- Country
- Khedivate of Egypt
- Country of origin
- Ancient Egypt
- Material used
- granite
- Collection
- Egyptian Museum
- Location
- Egyptian Museum
- Image
- Merneptah Steli (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 310
- Width
- 160
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- commissioned by
- Merneptah
- location of discovery
- Thebes
- thickness
- 32
- inception
- 1200-00-00
- inventory number
- JE 31408
- time period
- New Kingdom of Egypt
- writing system
- Egyptian hieroglyphs
- discoverer or inventor
- Flinders Petrie
- time of discovery or invention
- 1896-00-00
- Commons category
- Merneptah Stele
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Encyclopedic overview
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 Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
The text is largely an account of Merneptah's victory over the ancient Libyans and their allies, but the last three of the 28 lines deal with a separate campaign in Canaan, then part of Egypt's imperial possessions. It is sometimes referred to as the "Israel Stele" because a majority of scholars translate a set of hieroglyphs in line 27 as "Israel". Alternative translations have been advanced but are not widely accepted.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Merneptah Stele” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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