One of four sets of fiberglass tablets created for Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 epic, "The Ten Commandments," which had (fittingly?) been gifted by Paramount Studios to an Atlantic City hotel/casino! Scholars consulted for the film wrote out the laws in an early Canaanite script that was a precursor of what became the square Hebrew alphabet ($30,000 – $50,000).
(Photo: Profiles In History)
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