A contentious Ten Commandments tablet has sold at Sotheby’s for $5.04 million — more than twice its high estimate of $2 million. The auction took place on Wednesday in New York City.
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. The oldest known ...
Or sign-in if you have an account. The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments sold for more than $5 million at an auction on Wednesday. Sotheby’s said the 155-pound (52 ...
NEW YORK – The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments sold for more than $5 million at an auction on Wednesday. Sotheby’s said the 155-pound (52-kilogram) marble slab ...
The oldest stone tablet depicting the Ten Commandments of Jewish and Christian faiths fetched a whopping $5.04 million when it sold at Sotheby’s New York on December 18. According to the auction ...
A rare stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments will be sold at an auction in New York Wednesday. Sotheby’s auction house anticipates that the tablet, which dates back to A.D. 300 to 800 and ...
A stone tablet carrying engravings of the 10 Commandments sold for $5 million at auction on Wednesday, Sotheby’s, a leading New York auction house specialising in art and historical artefacts ...
A 1,500-year-old Byzantine tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments will be auctioned on December 18, with an estimated value of $1-2 million. The 115-pound tablet was discovered in 1913 in ...
OSV News) -- An inscribed tablet of the Ten Commandments -- claimed to be the world’s oldest known extant example -- will go on auction Dec. 18 with expectations of garnering as much as $2 million.