The Egyptian Stelae in the Levant are the approximately 25 Ancient Egyptian stelae discovered in the Levant, today known as Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine and Jordan.[1] The most notable examples are the Stelae of Nahr el-Kalb and the Beisan steles.
Only five pharaohs are represented: Thutmosis III and his son Amenophis II (1479 - 1401 BC, both 18th dynasty), Seti I and his son Ramesses II and (1290 BC to 1213 BC, both 19th dynasty), and Shoshenq I (943–922 BC, 22nd dynasty).
| Original location | Image | Pharaoh / year | Preservation | Discovery date | Current location | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stelae of Nahr el-Kalb | Ramesses II, year 4 | rock-stela, eroded | 1697 | in situ | |||
| Ramesses II, year 10 | rock-stela, eroded | 1697 | |||||
| Ramesses II | rock-stela, eroded, vandalized in 1860/61 | 1697 | |||||
| Aadloun stele | Ramesses II | rock-stela, eroded since destroyed | ? | in situ, now destroyed | |||
| Al-Shaykh Saad | Ramesses II | complete, eroded | 1891 | (unknown) | [2] | ||
| Tell Shihab | Seti I | Fragment | 1901 | Istanbul | [3] | ||
| Byblos | Ramesses II, year 4 | Two fragments | 1919 | Beirut | |||
| Tell al-Nabi Mando | Seti I | Fragment | 1921 | Aleppo | |||
| Beisan steles | Seti I | Fragment | 1921 | Rockefeller Archeological Museum | |||
| Seti I, year 1 | Complete | 1923 | |||||
| Ramesses II, year 18 | Complete | 1923 | Penn Museum | ||||
| Ramesses II | Two fragments | 1923, 1925 | Jerusalem and Penn Museum | [4] | |||
| Tel Megiddo | Sheshonq I | Fragment | 1925-29 | Jerusalem | [5] [6] | ||
| Tell el-'Oreimeh | Thutmosis III or Amenophis II | Fragment | 1928 | Deganya | [7] | ||
| Byblos | Thutmosis III (?) | Fragment | 1933-38 | Beirut | |||
| Tyre | Seti I | Two fragments | 1960s | ||||
| Ramesses II | Fragment | 1960s | |||||
| Ramesses II | Fragment | prior to 1975 | |||||
| Al-Kiswah | Ramesses II, year 56 | Fragment | 1994 | Damascus | |||
| at-Turra | Ramesses II | Fragment | 1999 | in situ | |||
| Maydaa | 2010 | [8] |