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DESCRIPTION |
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Language: | Egyptian hieroglyphics |
| Medium: | black granite stele | |
| Size: | 7.5 feet high 3.25 feet wide | |
| Length: | 28 lines of writing | |
| Genre: | victory hymn | |
| Date: | late 13th cent. BCE | |
| Merneptah's reign: | 1237–1225 or 1223–1211 BCE | |
| Place of Discovery: | Merneptah's mortuary temple Thebes, Egypt | |
| Date of Discovery: | 1896 | |
| Discoverer: | Sir W. M. Flinders Petrie | |
| Current Location: | Cairo Museum | |
| Inventory number: | 34025 |
| DISCUSSION QUESTIONS |
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| SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Ahlström, Gösta. The History of Ancient Palestine.
Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993. (pp. 282-88) Ahlström, Gösta. Who Were the Israelites? Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1986. (pp. 37-41) Ahlström, Gösta and Diana Edelman. "Merneptah's Israel." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 44 (1985):59-61. Engel, H. "Die Siegesstele des Merneptah." Biblica 60 (1979): 373-99. Redford, Donald B. "The Ashkelon Relief at Karnak and the Israel Stele." Israel Exploration Journal 36 (1986):188-200. Redford, Donald B. "Merenptah." In Anchor Bible Dictionary 4:700-701. Ed. D. N. Freedman. New York: Doubleday, 1992. Stager, Lawrence E. "Merneptah, Israel, and the Sea Peoples: New Light on an Old Relief." Eretz Israel 18 (1985):*60. |
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