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Ten Commandments Tablet Surpasses Estimates at Sotheby’s Despite Authenticity Questions
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Spencer Platt / Getty Images The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments, dating from 300 to 800 A.D. was sold at Sotheby's auction house on Dec. 18, 2024, in New York City. Expected to sell for $1-2 million, it went for $5.04 million. Inscribed with the commandments in Paleo-Hebrew script, the tablet was discovered during railroad excavations along the southern coast of Israel in 1913.

The strong price underscores the ongoing tension between market demand for rare antiquities and persistent legal, ethical, and academic debates about how such objects are vetted.

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