Thou shalt not covet: Earliest known chiselled inscription of Ten Commandments sells at auction for $850,000

A 1,500-year-old stone tablet with the earliest known chiselled inscription of the Ten Commandments was sold at a US auction for $850,000 on Wednesday. The two-foot (61 cm) square slab of white marble that weighs about 115 pounds (50 kg) was sold in Beverly Hills, California, by Dallas-based Heritage Auctions to a buyer who not to be immediately identified. The tablet was put up for sale by Rabbi Shaul Deutsch, founder of the Living Torah Museum, in Brooklyn, New York, with the stipulation that the buyer must put it on public display, the auction house said.
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