This study examines the possibility that the Aramaic basalt fragment discovered at Tell Afis(TA.03.A.300) may belong to the same monumental inscription as the Tel Dan Stele (KAI310). The analysis combines comparative epigraphy, paleography, material observations,fracture-profile considerations, and semantic reconstruction in order to evaluate possibleconvergences between the two corpora.Both inscriptions share several notable characteristics: basaltic support, polished surfacetreatment, comparable glyphic morphology, Old Aramaic script, and the royal anthroponymHazael (HZ L). The study further emphasizes a major structural anomaly within the Tel Dan ʾcorpus: the absence of the presumed author's name in all currently assembled fragments.The Tell Afis fragment may provide a possible solution to this lacuna.Recent RTI-based reassessments by Michael Langlois (2024), questioning the traditionalreconstruction proposed by Biran and Naveh, reopen the spatial organization of the Tel Danfragments and strengthen the legitimacy of considering additional fragmentary candidates.Although no definitive attribution can presently be established, the convergence ofepigraphic, material, and semantic indicators justifies further investigation throughpetrographic analysis, RTI comparison, and 3D fracture-profile matching.
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