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).

List of known stelae

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	[2]
		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)	[3]
Tell Shihab		Seti I	Fragment	1901	Istanbul	[4]
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	[5]
Tel Megiddo		Sheshonq I	Fragment	1925-29	Jerusalem	[6][7]
Tell el-'Oreimeh		Thutmosis III or Amenophis II	Fragment	1928	Deganya	[8]
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		[9]

See also

• Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II
• Tabnit sarcophagus
• Merneptah Stele

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