Primary source

Breasted, Ancient Records of Egypt, vol. III

Volume III of Breasted’s translation covers the Nineteenth Dynasty and includes the victory stele of Merneptah, the text in which the name Israel first appears in any surviving source.

Why a second edition of the same object is listed

Petrie’s excavation report published the stele with plates and is the record of its discovery. Breasted supplies a continuous English translation in context with the rest of the dynasty’s inscriptions. They are doing different jobs, and a citation of the Israel passage should be able to point at both: the object as excavated, and the text as translated.

The caution that goes with a century-old translation

Breasted is out of copyright and readable in full, which makes it checkable. It has also been superseded, and the Merneptah passage in particular has generated a large technical literature on the reading of the determinatives and on the structure of the Canaanite section. Where a specific reading matters, that literature is where the argument lives.

How it is cited here

By Internet Archive identifier, which resolves to the item record and returns the title.