Beisan steles

Ramesses II stele, Penn Museum

The three triumphal steles

The Beisan steles are five Ancient Egyptian steles from the period of Seti I and Ramesses II discovered in what was then known as Beisan, Mandatory Palestine by Alan Rowe in the late 1920s and early 1930s.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

^ Higginbotham, C.R. (2022). Egyptianization and Elite Emulation in Ramesside Palestine: Governance and Accommodation on the Imperial Periphery. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East. Brill. p. 235. ISBN 978-90-04-49364-3. Retrieved 2023-04-23. A number of Stelae or Stele fragments derive from LB IIB-Iron IA Palestine. Five came from Beth Shan, four from Deir el-Balah, and two from sites on the east bank of the Jordan. All were made of local stone basalt, kurkar (sandstone), or limestone. Three of the Beth Shan Stelae contain lengthy inscriptions, which were discussed in chapter 2 in the sections on the reigns of Seti I
^ "The Two Royal Stelæ of Beth-Shan". The Museum Journal. 2023-04-15. Retrieved 2023-04-15.
^ Levy, Eythan (2018). "A Fresh Look at the Mekal Stele". Ägypten und Levante / Egypt and the Levant. 28. Austrian Academy of Sciences Press: 359–378. doi:10.1553/AEundL28s359. ISSN 1015-5104. JSTOR 26664996. Retrieved 2023-04-15 – via JSTOR.
^ Černý, J.; צ'רני, י. (1958). "אסטילת רעמסס השני מבית-שאן / STELA OF RAMESSES II FROM BEISAN". Eretz-Israel: Archaeological, Historical and Geographical Studies / ארץ-ישראל: מחקרים בידיעת הארץ ועתיקותיה. ה. Israel Exploration Society: 75*–82*. ISSN 0071-108X. JSTOR 23612473. Retrieved 2023-04-15.