Beisan steles

"First stele" of Seti I, Rockefeller Archeological Museum
"Second stele, of Seti I, Rockefeller Archeological Museum
Ramesses II stele, Penn Museum
The three triumphal steles

The Beisan steles are five Ancient Egyptian steles from the period of Seti I (reigned c. 1294–1279 BC) and Ramesses II (reigned c. 1279–1213 BC) discovered in what was then known as Beisan, Mandatory Palestine by Alan Rowe in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

The first stele of Seti is considered to testify to the presence of a population of Hebrews: the Habiru, which Seti I protected from an Asiatic tribe.


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