Ten Commandments tablet sells for double estimate at over $5 million
A marble tablet bearing an ancient rendition of text related to the Ten Commandments has sold at Sotheby’s in New York for $5.04 million, twice as much as the initial highest estimate. Before the auction on 18 December, Sotheby’s had estimated that the tablet, which it claims dates from the late Roman-Byzantine era, would sell
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