The Tel Dan Stele is attributed by scholarly consensus to Hazael of Damascus (r. ~842–796 BCE). This study identifies two independent sets of anomalies that undermine this dating. First, a historical anomaly: no victory stele in the contemporaneous Aramaic and Assyrian epigraphic corpus presents a forty-year gap between the commemorated event and the inscription — yetthis is precisely what the consensus paleographic dating implies. Second, an archaeological anomaly: the fragments were found in secondary use, the final excavation report was never published, and an academic study published in Tel Aviv 35 (Arie, 2008) has down-dated the principal stratum by approximately one century. These inconsistencies, internal to the consensus itself, warrant a reopening of the dating question.
Din d'Arya (Thu,) studied this question.