entity · text_tel_dan_stele
Tel Dan Stele
Also known as: House of David inscription
Fragmentary Aramaic victory inscription conventionally read as referring to the House of David.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
850 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate half century
Chronology model: ninth century Aramaic stele
highThe stele is a ninth-century inscription; it is later evidence for a dynasty or polity and not a contemporary tenth-century report about David.
- informs · dates
The Tel Dan Inscription: A New Fragment — Avraham Biran, Joseph Naveh (1995)Provides primary dating.
Locator: palaeography and archaeological context - informs · contextualizes
Tel Dan Stela: New Light on Aramaic and Jehu's Revolt — William M. Schniedewind (1996)Provides attribution discussion.
Locator: historical setting
Research description
Fragmentary Aramaic victory inscription conventionally read as referring to the House of David. The text is evidence for its own date, genre, and reception; any event or identity inference is modeled separately.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Contextual record outside primary interval
A later or earlier record retained because it directly tests a claim, terminology, reception, or consequence inside the primary interval.
Why does this record have this property?
The ninth-century stele is later evidence relevant to a tenth-century dynastic claim.
- Tel Dan Stela: New Light on Aramaic and Jehu's Revolt
provides source criticism · chronology and bytdwd
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides primary evidence
An Aramaic Stele Fragment from Tel Dan — Avraham Biran, Joseph Naveh (1993)Primary publication.
Locator: Fragment A, lines and initial reading - informs · provides primary evidence
The Tel Dan Inscription: A New Fragment — Avraham Biran, Joseph Naveh (1995)Expanded primary publication.
Locator: Fragments B1/B2 and reconstruction - informs · proposes interpretation
Tel Dan Stela: New Light on Aramaic and Jehu's Revolt — William M. Schniedewind (1996)Provides a major philological interpretation.
Locator: bytdwd and historical analysis
Referenced records
- Southern Levant · entity