the Israelites * Merneptah who ruled Egypt from 1213 to 1203 BC *The stele was discovered in the first court of Merneptah's mortuary temple at Thebes by Flinders Petrie in 1896. *The stela is dated to Year 5, 3rd month of Shemu (summer), day 3 (c.1209/1208 BC), and begins with a