Historians of the Ancient Near East agree that David probably existed around 1000 BCE, but that there is little else that is agreed on about him as a historical figure. The Tel Dan Stele, an inscribed stone erected by a king of Damascus in the late 9th/early 8th centuries BCE to commemorate his victory over two enemy kings, contains the phrase in , "bytdwd", which most scholars translate as "House of David". Apart from these, all that is known of David comes from the biblical literature, the historicity of which is doubtful, and there is little detail about David that is concrete and undisputed.