Egyptian stelae in the Levant

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

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Original location	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	Rockefeller Archeological Museum
	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]