The leg from auctions Sotheby’s will sell to the highest bidder next month in New York table with the ten commands oldest preserved, approximately 1,500 years old, which will be presented to the public from December 5.
Without estimating the precious that this ancient representation of the decalogue which God, according to the Bible, gave to Moses on Mount Sinai to seal a “covenant” with the people of Israel, Sotheby’s says it will be sold on December 18 in one lot.
- He is a plate from marble weighing 52 kilos and about 60 centimeters tall with the list of commands written in paleo Hebrew and according to the late Byzantine period.
The twenty series of text recorded in the Piedra follow the verses closely biblical who is familiar with both Christian and Jewish traditions.
Although there are ten commands registered in the a platethere is one that is not in the Book of the Exodus and which replaces “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain”: praying at Mount Gerizim, a special holy place for the Samaritans, says Sotheby’s.
The table it was discovered in 1913 during some digging to build a railway line on the southern coast of present-day Israel, but the importance of the discovery went unnoticed for several decades, notes Sotheby’s in the auction announcement.
For thirty years the a plate serve as hail at the entrance a leg with the inscription facing and open to traffic, he said.
According to Sotheby’s, “this amazing artifact, dating back to the end of the Byzantine period, is about 1,500 years old and is the only feature. a plate total of the Ten Commandments which are still alive from this early period.
According to the story told in the book of Exodus, God wrote these commandments in two tables from Piedra (lit tables the law) and he gave them to Moses to be fulfilled by the Jews.
2024-11-13 15:12:00
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