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The Tel Dan Inscription: A New Fragment
Avraham Biran, Joseph Naveh · 1995
Reading ancient testimony
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Document and modern access
- Type
- journal article and inscription publication
- Publication
- Israel Exploration Journal, vol. 45, no. 1, 1-18
Records informed by this source
- date assertion Tel Dan Stele — date assertionEvidence confidence: highinforms · dates · palaeography and archaeological context
Provides primary dating.
- geography assertion Dan — geography assertionEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · locates · excavation context and new inscription fragments
Supports identification and archaeological location of Dan; the point is a representative site locator, not an excavation footprint.
- date assertion Dan — date assertioninforms · provides archaeological observation · excavation context and new inscription fragments
Supports the site description, phase range, or principal research relevance.
- relationship Dan — located in — Galilee and northern valleysEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological observation · excavation context and new inscription fragments
Supports the site description, phase range, or principal research relevance.
- entity DanEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological observation · excavation context and new inscription fragments
Supports the site description, phase range, or principal research relevance.
- entity Tel Dan SteleEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · Fragments B1/B2 and reconstruction
Expanded primary publication.
- entity AramEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · Old Aramaic royal inscription
Attests one polity context.
- date assertion Aram — date assertioninforms · provides primary evidence · Old Aramaic royal inscription
Attests one polity context.
- event Erection and later deposition of the Tel Dan Aramaic victory steleEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · fragments B1/B2 and reconstruction
Expanded text.
- event Aramean-Israelite conflict and shifting northern borderlandsEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides primary evidence · Aramaic victory inscription and archaeological context
Direct conflict evidence.
- relationship Aramean polities and communities — conflicted and allied with — Kingdom of IsraelEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · Aramaic victory inscription
Conflict evidence.
- relationship Tel Dan Stele — documents — Aramean-Israelite conflict and shifting northern borderlandsEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · reconstructed victory text
Supports relationship.
- date assertion Erection and later deposition of the Tel Dan Aramaic victory stele — date assertionEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · fragments B1/B2 and reconstruction
Expanded text.
- date assertion Aramean-Israelite conflict and shifting northern borderlands — date assertionEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides primary evidence · Aramaic victory inscription and archaeological context
Direct conflict evidence.
- claim The Tel Dan stele likely attests a dynasty called the House of David in the ninth century BCE, but it is later evidence and does not directly establish the tenth-century kingdom…Evidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · fragments and bytdwd reconstruction
Primary publication.
- entity Aramean polities and communitiesEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides primary evidence · Aramaic stele language and historical setting
Attests an Aramaic royal inscription in the southern Levant.
- date assertion Aramean polities and communities — date assertioninforms · provides primary evidence · Aramaic stele language and historical setting
Attests an Aramaic royal inscription in the southern Levant.
- entity Geshur-Maacah borderland communitiesEvidence confidence: lowinforms · provides primary evidence · Tel Dan regional context
Supports later Aramean and Israelite contestation in the area.
- date assertion Geshur-Maacah borderland communities — date assertioninforms · provides primary evidence · Tel Dan regional context
Supports later Aramean and Israelite contestation in the area.