![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6347/1075/400/shapira.0.jpg)
--something of interest was noticed subsequent to the time this forgery turned up. Paleo-Hebrew written on leather (or pottery) does not look like Paleo-Hebrew chiseled out of stone. With ink a cursive can develop and the thickness of the lines is influenced by the pen.
Carved in stone:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5cLpj6S8Ky8prTi7EAcYXzRH3c6ssxi_L0SRR_KiRgL0xfGFWpoPiFVqg0ymyFl5G5QCwltbWhI5FW9jM9abRaRhjKsw7MIp8_ZtcGrqhYYt_D299m1tIxsmoFkG78RY04TL6/s400/siloam.jpg)
Ink on pottery:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFBjtZYyKuEjN0gE_R_vBVjkoHqockiy2tEqq5s1vIcIPRIY04_w_M1x1MFLj56Q3b9GWn_HCyEFxbs8AGeksXx2fmoO_wM_LksNFB390R9eDtzT8WKQoTGUznoh_yH5LNBno1/s400/1.gif)
Simply put, the real thing would have looked more like the second and less like the first. Instead, it looks exactly like the first. In the words of MH Goshen-Gottstein, " The Shapira Forgery and the Qumran Scrolls," JJS 7:3-4, 1956, "the forger imitated Paleo-Hebrew monumental letters, i.e. letters used on inscriptions (or coins). Neither he nor any scholar in the 1880s could know....that a written Paleo-Hebrew document exhibits altogether different characteristics."
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