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Object · 9th century BCE (Iron Age II)
The Tel Dan stele: "House of David"
A fragment of a basalt stele with an Aramaic inscription, found at Tel Dan and held by the Israel Museum. The photograph here is a visitor's photograph from a temporary exhibition at the Bible Lands Museum in 2017 (CC BY-SA 4.0), not the record's image; the museum's own image is seen in the record.
- Region
- The Levant
- Material
- Basalt
- Held by
- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem