Sotheby's auction house will sell a 1,500-year-old artifact with biblical records. The approximate price of the lot is about $2 million.
The tablet with biblical records belongs to the late Byzantine period and weighs 50 kg. This tablet has inscriptions in Paleo-Hebrew script.
The monument was found in 1913, during the construction of a railway on the coast of Israel. This happened on the territory that used to be located near the early synagogues and mosques. It is interesting that at first the value of the find could not be established and it was used as part of the road near one of the houses.
In 1943, the tablet was purchased by a scientist who was able to establish that it contains the Samaritan decalogue of God's commandments.
“This remarkable tablet is not only an extremely important historical artifact, but also a tangible link to the beliefs that helped shape Western civilization. To encounter this shared part of cultural heritage is to travel through the millennia and connect with the cultures and faiths that inform one of humanity's oldest and most enduring moral codes," said Richard Austin, global head of books and manuscripts at Sotheby's.
Source: sothebys.com
