It weighs 115 pounds, is two feet long and is carved in an early version of Hebrew, now called Paleo-Hebrew, the auction house said. Sotheby’s had estimated that the tablet would sell for between$ 1 million and$ 2 million....
It was used as a paving stone at a home, and was sunk into the earth with its inscription facing up, Mr....
Kaplan, who died in 1989, published his findings in a scholarly journal, The Bulletin of the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society, in 1947....
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