At a remote and boulder-strewn site east of the Dead Sea, between Dhiban and Shihan, F. de Saulcy found a carved stone in 1851, which he described and illustrated in Voyage en Syrie (Vol. I, 324 and 333). The stone remained in position until the Duc de Luynes conveyed it to the Musée du Louvre in 1864 (Les Monuments Palestiniens et Judaiques by R. Dussaud, 1912).

The Shihan stele, as it is called, is carved on a block of blackish-green basalt just over a metre high and fifty-eight centimetres wide; it is chipped and broken all round the single male figure in high relief which occupies nearly all the remaining space. The body is squat and very muscular, the attitude is tense and alert, but the legs are missing below the knees.