[BenLurkin]

SO that’s where Charlton Heston left it.

[Larry Lucido]

Maybe it’s commandments 11 through 15 before Mel Brooks as Moses dropped them.

[BenLurkin]

[TangoLimaSierra]

Instead of “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain,” the tablet instructs followers to worship on Mount Gerizim, a site holy to the Samaritans, according to Sotheby’s.

[TalBlack]

“Instead of “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain,” the tablet instructs followers to worship on Mount Gerizim, a site holy to the Samaritans.”

Getting an idea here why someone thought this tablet suitable for foot traffic.

[Beowulf9]

“In 2016, New York’s Living Torah Museum sold it at auction for $850,000 to an unknown buyer in Beverly Hills.

“This remarkable tablet is not only a vastly important historic artifact, but a tangible link to the beliefs that helped shape Western civilization,” said Richard Austin, Sotheby’s global head of books and manuscripts”.

Why did New York’s Living Torah Museum sell this one in a kind archaeological artifact? This is something that belongs to the people.

Shouldn’t this be BACK in a museum?

[Beowulf9]

How did they decide upon removing the Commandment “Thou shall not take the Lord’s name in vain” and replace it with “Instead of “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain,” the tablet instructs followers to worship on Mount Gerizim, a site holy to the Samaritans”.

Wouldn’t that be kind of sacrilege?

“Sacrilege is the violation or injurious treatment of a sacred object” or is this artifact just viewed as a homemade copy for a homeowner to put up and if so even then how do you remove one commandment and replace it with another?

[Aeneas2112]

The Byzantine Empire fell to the Muhammadians in 1453, so 300-800 would have been the late Roman and early Byzantine Empires; the last half of that range is now known as ‘Late Antiquity’, from the time the Roman Empire became a full fledged military dictatorship to the rise of Charlemagne. The ‘Late Byzantine’ would be from about 1100 or 1200 or 1025 when Basil II died.

[Organic Panic]

How come I don’t find anything like that. Best I did was find a TAG Hauer Carerra watch at a thrift store for $2.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It’s interesting that what we call the “Ten Commandments” are explicated in Exodus 20:1–17 and Deuteronomy 5:4–21, but are never explicitly enumerated in the bible, and different traditions assign different numbers to the same rules.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments#Commandments_text_and_numbering

The Samaritan tradition, which differs from most Western churches, is shown under column “S” of the link, and appears to be the one represented by these stones.

[null and void]

[Vaduz]

I smell fish?.

[Qwapisking]

ironic that as a sidewalk stone it was stepped on as much as the words inscribed are.