Stone tablet carved with Ten Commandments is up for auction
We could see a bidding war of biblical proportions. A 1,500-year-old stone tablet engraved with the oldest known inscription of the Ten Commandments will hit the auction block at Sotheby’s New York next month.
“‘This is the earliest known complete tablet of the ten commandments,” gushed Mintz while describing the “one-of-a-kind” find.The artifact last sold for $850,000 in 2016 for a bargain-bin price of $850,000 at an auction in Beverly Hills, California.“We understood how powerful the object was and we were really thrilled to be able to offer it for sale to the public,” Sharon Liberman Mintz, Sotheby’s international senior specialist of Judaica, books, and manuscripts, told ARTnews.
In fact, the tablet’s biblical significance was not known until 1943, when it was acquired by archaeologist Jacob Kaplan, who recognized the tablet as a rare decalogue belonging to the Samaritans —He recruited Yitzhak Ben-Zvi — an ancient Hebrew expert who would serve as Israel’s second president — to help him decode the inscription.
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