The provenance of the tablet has been questioned, not because anyone has claimed that it is the biblical original, but because the tablet has been dated to between 300 and 800 AD. Experts have also expressed doubts since it only contains nine of the Ten Commandments.
But those who were upset about the high price, which was almost five times higher than its valuation, do not need to worry since the commandment about not misusing the Lord's, your God's name, is included.
The Commandments are in paleo-Hebrew script and the tablet is said to have been found in 1913 in present-day Israel. According to Sotheby's, it was in private ownership until an archaeologist living in Israel realized its significance and bought it.
The tablet later ended up in a Jewish museum in Brooklyn before being sold to a private collector.
