The
Merneptah Stele—also known as the
Israel Stele or
Victory Stele of Merneptah—is an inscription by the
Ancient Egyptian king Merneptah (reign:
1213 to
1203 BC) discovered by
Flinders Petrie in 1896 at
Thebes, and now housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The text is largely an account of Merneptah's victory over the Libyans and their allies, but the last 3 of the 28 lines deal with a separate campaign in
Canaan, then part of Egypt's imperial possessions.