[2] The Old Aramaic inscription is known as KAI 201; its five lines reads: “The stele which Bar-Had- -ad, son of [...] king of Aram, erected to his Lord Melqar- -t, to whom he made a vow and who heard his voi-

[3] However, Kenneth Kitchen disagrees and states that there is no actual evidence that connects the Melqart stele to Ben-Hadad I.

[4] a recent re-analysis of the stele indicated that the Ben-Hadad referred to is actually the king of Arpad.

[5] Hackett and Wilson-Wright reconstitute the first two lines of the inscription as, "1.

The statue which Bir-Ha- 2. dad, son of ʕAttar-sumkī, Bir-Gūš," According to them, "Attar-sumkī was a king from the line of Gūš, the founder of a dynasty originally from the tribe of Yaḫan in the early ninth century BCE."