Did you know the earliest Ten Commandments stone inscription has been sold for £800,000?

The Ten Commandments chiseled in a 

white marble slab in Hebrew

The Christian complete Ten Commandment that was earlier in-scripted in a stone has been sold for more than £800,000 and set to be on public viewing.

The square 200lbs tablet dates back to the fourth century and adorned an ancient synagogue in Israel that was destroyed by the Romans between 400AD to 600AD.

The Ten Commandments chiseled into a white marble slab in a square 200Ibs tablet starts with The 'thou shalt' in 20 lines of letters in an early Hebrew script called Samaritan.

Report says the Ten Commandment was uncovered in 1913 during excavations for a railway station near Yavneh in Israel which was acquired by an Arab man who set it on the floor of his courtyard which some letters of the Ten Commandments were cleaned due to foot traffic in the centre. 

Mr Y. Kaplan later acquired it in 1943 for 50-years before it was bought by Robert Deutsch, an antiquities dealer in the 90s. 

 

In 2005, The Ten Commandments was obtained by a prominent rabbi which he placed in his Torah Museum in New York where it has since been displayed with the blessing of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA).

 

Among the items displayed for auctioning the Ten Commandments tablet led the way as it was sold for a hammer price of $850,000 (£682,000). With fees added on the total amount paid by the winning bidder was $1.02million (£818,000).

Because it as a National Treasure of Israel, the IAA made it a condition of its sale that the new buyer must agree to place the object on public display.

David Michaels, director of antiquities for Los Angeles-based Heritage Auctions, said: "The sale of this tablet does not mean it will be hidden away from the public.

"The new owner is under obligation to display the tablet for the benefit of the public."

Mr Michaels added: "There is nothing more fundamental to our shared heritage than the 10 Commandments."

The Ten Commandment is the most prominent use by Christians and is virtually the tradition of the Christian faith and it is dated back to the fourth century.