Beisan steles

The Beisan steles are five Ancient Egyptian steles from the period of Seti I and Ramesses II discovered in what was then known as Beisan, Mandatory Palestine by Alan Rowe in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

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

[9] One of the steles, discovered in 1928,[10] states that the temple was dedicated to “Mekal, the god, the lord of Beth Shean”;[11] an otherwise unknown Canaanite god – the stele itself is our main source of knowledge about Mekal.

[12] Mekal is seated on a throne, receiving lotus flowers from the builder Amenemapt and his son Paraemheb, holding an ankh and was-sceptre.

A Canaanite stele showing a lion and lioness at play was found in the excavation of the "governor's house".