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Merneptah Stele, the Glossary

The Merneptah Stele, also known as the Israel Stele or the Victory Stele of Merneptah, is an inscription by Merneptah, a pharaoh in ancient Egypt who reigned from 1213 to 1203 BCE.^[1]

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13th-century BC steles
1896 archaeological discoveries
Ancient Egyptian stelas
Foreign contacts of ancient Egypt
Gezer
Late Bronze Age collapse
Victory steles

Amenhotep III

Amenhotep III (jmn-ḥtp(.w),; "Amun is satisfied"), also known as Amenhotep the Magnificent or Amenhotep the Great and Hellenized as Amenophis III, was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty.

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Amun

Amun was a major ancient Egyptian deity who appears as a member of the Hermopolitan Ogdoad.

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.

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Ancient Libya

During the Iron Age and Classical antiquity, Libya (from Greek Λιβύη: Libyē, which came from Berber: Libu) referred to modern-day Africa west of the Nile river.

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Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament

Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament edited by James B. Pritchard (1st ed. 1950, 2nd ed.1955, 3rd ed. 1969) is an anthology of important historical, legal, mythological, liturgical, and secular texts in biblical archaeology.

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Ascalon

Ascalon (Philistine: 𐤀𐤔𐤒𐤋𐤍, romanized: *; ʾAšqəlōn; Askálōn; Ascalon; ʿAsqalān) was an ancient Near East port city on the Mediterranean coast of the southern Levant of high historical significance, including early on as a major Philistine city, and later as an much contested stronghold during the Crusades.

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Š-L-M

Shin-Lamedh-Mem is a triconsonantal root of many Semitic words (many of which are used as names).

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Battle of Perire

The Battle of Perire was fought around 1208 BC between the New Kingdom of Egypt, led by the pharaoh Merneptah, and a coalition of Libyan tribes and Sea Peoples.

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Berlin pedestal relief

The Berlin pedestal relief is part of the base of a granite pedestal of an unprovenanced Ancient Egyptian statue containing an inscription describing Egypt's war victories. Merneptah Stele and Berlin pedestal relief are ancient Egyptian stelas, ancient Israel and Judah, foreign contacts of ancient Egypt and victory steles.

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Book of Gates

The Book of Gates (Kitab al-Bawaabat) is an ancient Egyptian funerary text dating from the New Kingdom.

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Cairo

Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.

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Canaan

Canaan (Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 –; כְּנַעַן –, in pausa כְּנָעַן –; Χανααν –;The current scholarly edition of the Greek Old Testament spells the word without any accents, cf. Septuaginta: id est Vetus Testamentum graece iuxta LXX interpretes.

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Edward Lipiński (orientalist)

Edward Lipiński, or Edouard Lipiński (born 18 June 1930 in Łódź, Poland and deceased on 12 April 2024 in Brussels, Belgium), was a Polish-Belgian Biblical scholar and Orientalist, professor and exegete at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Egyptian hieroglyphs

Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language.

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Egyptian Museum

The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known as the Egyptian Museum (al-Matḥaf al-Miṣrī, Egyptian Arabic) (also called the Cairo Museum), located in Cairo, Egypt, houses the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world.

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Flinders Petrie

Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (–), commonly known as simply Sir Flinders Petrie, was a British Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and the preservation of artefacts.

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Frank J. Yurco

Frank J. Yurco (July 31, 1944 – February 6, 2004), born to Czechoslovakian immigrants in New York, was an Egyptologist from Chicago.

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Gaza City

Gaza, also called Gaza City, is a Palestinian city in the Gaza Strip.

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Gezer

Gezer, or Tel Gezer (גֶּזֶר), in تل الجزر – Tell Jezar or Tell el-Jezari is an archaeological site in the foothills of the Judaean Mountains at the border of the Shfela region roughly midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Hill-country (hieroglyph)

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History of ancient Israel and Judah

The history of ancient Israel and Judah spans from the early appearance of the Israelites in Canaan's hill country during the late second millennium BCE, to the establishment and subsequent downfall of the two Israelite kingdoms in the mid-first millennium BCE. Merneptah Stele and history of ancient Israel and Judah are ancient Israel and Judah.

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Hittites

The Hittites were an Anatolian Indo-European people who formed one of the first major civilizations of Bronze Age West Asia.

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Iron Age

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Israelites

The Israelites were a group of Semitic-speaking tribes in the ancient Near East who, during the Iron Age, inhabited a part of Canaan. Merneptah Stele and Israelites are ancient Israel and Judah.

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Jezreel Valley

The Jezreel Valley (from the translit), or Marj Ibn Amir (Marj Ibn ʿĀmir), also known as the Valley of Megiddo, is a large fertile plain and inland valley in the Northern District of Israel.

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John A. Wilson (Egyptologist)

John Albert Wilson (September 12, 1899 – August 30, 1976) was an American Egyptologist who was the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.

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Journal of the American Oriental Society

The Journal of the American Oriental Society is a quarterly academic journal published by the American Oriental Society since 1843.

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Khonsu

Khonsu (ḫnsw; also transliterated Chonsu, Khensu, Khons, Chons or Khonshu; Shons) is the ancient Egyptian god of the Moon.

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Kurkh Monoliths

The Kurkh Monoliths are two Assyrian stelae of & 879 BC that contain a description of the reigns of Ashurnasirpal II and his son Shalmaneser III. Merneptah Stele and Kurkh Monoliths are ancient Israel and Judah.

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Levant

The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term ''Middle East''.

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Libu

The Libu (rbw; also transcribed Rebu, Libo, Lebu, Lbou, Libou) were an Ancient Libyan tribe of Berber origin, from which the name Libya derives.

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List of Egyptian hieroglyphs

The total number of distinct Egyptian hieroglyphs increased over time from several hundred in the Middle Kingdom to several thousand during the Ptolemaic Kingdom.

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List of inscriptions in biblical archaeology

The following is a list of inscribed artifacts, items made or given shape by humans, that are significant to biblical archaeology.

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Merneptah

Merneptah or Merenptah (reigned July or August 1213–2 May 1203 BCE) was the fourth pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt.

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Mesha Stele

The Mesha Stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, is a stele dated around 840 BCE containing a significant Canaanite inscription in the name of King Mesha of Moab (a kingdom located in modern Jordan). Merneptah Stele and Mesha Stele are victory steles.

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Mut

Mut, also known as Maut and Mout, was a mother goddess worshipped in ancient Egypt.

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New Kingdom of Egypt

The New Kingdom, also referred to as the Egyptian Empire, was the ancient Egyptian state between the 16th century BC and the 11th century BC.

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Nine bows

The Nine Bows is a visual representation in Ancient Egyptian art of foreigners or others.

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Nomad

Nomads are communities without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from areas.

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Pharaoh

Pharaoh (Egyptian: pr ꜥꜣ; ⲡⲣ̄ⲣⲟ|Pǝrro; Biblical Hebrew: Parʿō) is the vernacular term often used for the monarchs of ancient Egypt, who ruled from the First Dynasty until the annexation of Egypt by the Roman Republic in 30 BCE.

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Ramesses II

Ramesses II (rꜥ-ms-sw), commonly known as Ramesses the Great, was an Egyptian pharaoh. Merneptah Stele and Ramesses II are Egyptian Museum.

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Ramesses III

Usermaatre Meryamun Ramesses III was the second Pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty in Ancient Egypt. Merneptah Stele and Ramesses III are late Bronze Age collapse.

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Ramesses VI

Ramesses VI Nebmaatre-Meryamun (sometimes written Ramses or Rameses, also known under his princely name of Amenherkhepshef C) was the fifth ruler of the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt.

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Right-to-left script

In a script (commonly shortened to right to left or abbreviated RTL, RL-TB or R2L), writing starts from the right of the page and continues to the left, proceeding from top to bottom for new lines.

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Tel Dan stele

The Tel Dan Stele is a fragmentary stele containing an Aramaic inscription which dates to the 9th century BCE. Merneptah Stele and Tel Dan stele are victory steles.

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Tel Jezreel

Tel Jezreel (God will sow) is an archaeological site in the eastern Jezreel Valley in northern Israel.

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Tel Megiddo

Tel Megiddo (from תל מגידו), called in Arabic Tell el-Mütesellim "tell of the Governor", is the site of the ancient city of Megiddo (Μεγιδδώ), the remains of which form a tell or archaeological mound, situated in northern Israel at the western edge of the Jezreel Valley about southeast of Haifa near the depopulated Palestinian town of Lajjun and subsequently Kibbutz Megiddo.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merneptah_Stele

Also known as Israel Stela, Israel Stele, Merenptah Stele, The Merneptah Stele, Victory Stela of Merneptah, Victory Stele of Merenptah.

, Thebes, Egypt, Throw stick (hieroglyph), United Kingdom, Wilhelm Spiegelberg, Yenoam, Zayin.

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See also

13th-century BC steles

1896 archaeological discoveries

Ancient Egyptian stelas

Foreign contacts of ancient Egypt

Gezer

Late Bronze Age collapse

Victory steles

References