Evidence Entity

Tel Dan Stele / “House of David” inscription

Ninth-century BCE Aramaic basalt victory-stele fragments from Tel Dan, including the widely read phrase “House of David.” Cataloged as epigraphic/historical evidence rather than as a proof-text for any single biblical narrative.

InscriptionINSCRIPTION_TEL_DAN_STELE

Date9th century BCEmuseum/exhibition dating

LanguageAramaic

Evidence classificationdocumented fact

Research links1explicit graph relationships

Ancient Near Eastern contextJewish context

Identifiers

Israel Antiquities Authority1996-125 / 1993-3162

Provenance note

Fragments were discovered at Tel Dan in the early 1990s and are in the Israel Antiquities Authority collection; museum exhibition material places them in an Aramean victory-monument context.

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Historical / contextual links

Has Passage Evidence Record1 Kings 12:19 — Tel Dan “House of David” dynastic evidencestrong evidence

Evidence boundary: The stele is independent epigraphic evidence for a dynastic phrase commonly read as “House of David.” It does not by itself verify every narrative or chronology associated with David in Scripture.