Date created: Between 870 and 750 BC.
Written for: King Hazael of Aram-Damascus
Found in: Northern Israel
Language written in: Aramaic
Image of remaining piece of the Stele:
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| From the Israel Museum in Jerusalem |
The text that we do have what reads:
[...] and cut [...]
[...] my father went up [against him when] he fought at [...]
And my father lay down, he went to his [ancestors] and the king of I[s-]
rael entered previously in my father’s land. [And] Hadad made me king.
And Hadad went in front of me, [and] I departed from [the] seven [...-]
s of my kingdom, and I slew [seve]nty kin[gs], who harnessed thou[sands of cha-]
riots and thousands of horsemen. [I killed Jo]ram son of [Ahab]
king of Israel, and [I] killed [Ahaz]iahu son of [Jehoram kin-]
g of the House of David. And I set [their towns into ruins and turned]
their land into [desolation ...]
other [... and Jehu ru-]
led over Is[rael ... and I laid]
siege upon [...]
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