Balu'a Stele

The Balu'a Stele is a basalt stele (inscribed stone) with a near completely unreadable Egyptian hieroglyphic inscription and relief panel.

It was discovered in 1930 at the Khirbet al-Balu'a site north of the city of Karak and is thought to date to 1309–1151 BCE.

[1] The finding site is on the territory of the land of Moab, but the ethnical identity of the person who has carved it cannot be asserted.

[2] The iconography contains Canaanite elements, while the overall composition strictly conforms to Egyptian canons.

[2] It has been interpreted as representing two deities investing a Canaanite king, whom Egyptians would have seen as "Asiatic" and probably Shasu.