Auction Preview: Heritage Auctions’ Biblical Archaeology and Related Objects, Beverly Hills, Nov 16

What: Sale of Biblical Archaeology and Related ObjectsWhere: Heritage Auctions, 9478 West Olympic Blvd., 1st Floor, Beverly Hills, CA 90212When: November 16, 8PM CTPublic Viewing: November 14 through November 16, 2016Top Lots of the Sale:The auction brings a large selection of Judaica items along with antiques under hammer to be sold by bidding. The top lots of the sale are:-The Yevneh Ten Commandments stone from late Roman-Byzantine Era, a roughly square slab of white marble with inscribed Decalogue in Paleo-Hebrew characters rendered in Samaritan dialect. Starting bid: $200,000;-A massive 53.4 x 24.8 cm Basalt synagogue lintel with menorah and floral motifs from late Roman Era, around AD 300-500. Starting bid: $14,000;-A rare polychrome krater, likely intended for funerary uses from 300-250 BCE Southern Italy, decorated in applied pastel hues of cream, mauve, turquoise. Starting bid: $10,000;-A Sabaean bronze vessel in the form of a bust of a youth or deity from 300-100 BCE Southern Arabia. Starting bid: $10,000;-A bronze inscribed Hellenistic incense alter to Sarapis and Isis from Ptolemic era Egypt, around 280-150 BCE. Starting bid: $6,000.Click on the slideshow for the highlights of the sale.