The earliest, complete stone tablet of the 10 Commandments will hit the auction block at Sotheby's New York later this month. The tablet, dating to the late Roman-Byzantine era, is approximately 1,500 years old. Weighing 115 pounds and measuring approximately 2 feet in height, the marble tablet was unearthed in 1913 during railway excavations along the southern coast of Israel, near the sites of early synagogues, mosques and churches. The significance of the discovery went unrecognized for decades, Sotheby's said. The tablet contains only 9 of the 10 commandments found in the Book of Exodus. The stone tablet hits the auction block on Dec. 18, 2024 in New York City and has a pre-sale estimate of $1 million to $2 million.
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