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To: Desdemona
Market value of any object increases by attributing it to a famous person.

Certain people get on my case for telling what I see, but it looks like the text was carved into the stone a long time after the stone was first cut. The text is fresh and clean, the surface looks worn or eroded.

229 posted on 11/01/2002 2:44:27 PM PST by RightWhale
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To: RightWhale
Certain people get on my case for telling what I see, but it looks like the text was carved into the stone a long time after the stone was first cut. The text is fresh and clean, the surface looks worn or eroded.

Exactly. Anything almost 2000 years old is going to be worn and chipped. I can't believe people can't see this.
233 posted on 11/01/2002 2:48:47 PM PST by Desdemona
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To: RightWhale; Desdemona
Certain people get on my case for telling what I see, but it looks like the text was carved into the stone a long time after the stone was first cut. The text is fresh and clean, the surface looks worn or eroded.

Are we talking about this pic?

Actually, it looks doctored to me. The resolution seems crisper on the inscription, and the highlights are too bright and the shadows too dark, when compared to the surface of the ossuary.

The rock face is smother and brighter at the top left of the pic and darker and more pitted at the bottom right. Yet the brightest highlights and darkest shadows are in the middle, on the inscription.

I think that's more a testimony to Photoshop than the freshness (one way or the other) of the inscription. I could be wrong.




263 posted on 11/01/2002 3:37:31 PM PST by Sabertooth
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