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The “Samaritan Ten Commandments” Just Sold for Over $5 Million. But Are They Real?
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On Wednesday, Sotheby’s auctioned an item it advertised as the “oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments”—dating to sometime between 300 and 800 CE—for $5.03 million. The artifact was, according to Sotheby’s, discovered in 1913, and has the hallmarks of having been created by the Samaritan sect. But Christopher Rollston, perhaps the leading expert on ancient Hebrew inscriptions, is skeptical about these claims, and lays out a forensic case for doubting the tablet’s authenticity:
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The “Samaritan Ten Commandments” Just Sold for Over $5 Million. But Are They Real?
How forgeries happen.