l-bow

What do you think?


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Artemus

The only thing new here is that a post to a USENET group claims to quote the director of a TV program who claims to quote the head of the Isreal Geological Survey who claims that cleaning the patina with a wet towel could change the oxygen content as found in the patina in the inscription. Even if true, one would have wonder why only the patina in the inscription was affected and not that across the entire object. Did Golen's "mum" "occasionlly" clean the only inscription to get the dust out, but not clean the remainder of the box? This is hardly a convincing claim for authenticity.

CX

I think the James Ossuary needs to be relegated to the same junk drawer of scholarship as the Shroud of Turin. Undoubtedly though "True Believers" will continue to debate it for decades and devote cable tv specials and websites to it ad nauseum.

MortalWombat

Could cleaning the patina with a wet towel also introduce microfossils that are not found in the rest of the ossuary? Or could cleaning the patina with a wet towel make the inscription look like it cut through the older natural rock varnish, while the rosettes on the other side of the ossuary do not cut through this older varnish?

Artemus

Well of course not. I was just pointing out that the only new argument offered for authenticity was also seriously flawed.