(Lepper, Marley, Gill)
Paper due to be presented on 15 10 2021.
"This Friday at 9:30 am (ET), Meghan Marley, Jeff Gill, and I will be giving a presentation on “The Newark Holy Stones and the ‘Coin of Evia’: Lies, Damned Lies, and Barry Fell’s epigraphy.”
There is a link in the OAC's post you can use to watch all the presentations."
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www.ohioarchaeology.org]
Abstract:
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The Newark Holy Stones are a series of five fraudulent artifacts inscribed with Hebrew lettering that were found in Licking County, Ohio beginning in 1860. In 1980, Barry Fell, in Saga America, introduced a sixth artifact into the discussion, but instead of a Hebrew inscription, this “Coin of Evia” was said to have Celtiberic lettering. All of the original Holy Stones have been revealed to be forgeries or hoaxes. The misnamed Coin of Evia has been ignored by scholars -- until now. We here outline the circumstances of the discovery of all of these peculiar objects, present the overwhelming evidence for their fraudulent nature, and discuss the disparate agendas behind their creation in the 19th century and their revival in the 20th.
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