Fragmet of Dead Sea Scroll

3D Model

The Shrine of the Book Israel Museum Jerusalem.

Aprox. 5X5 cm.

One of some 15000 fragments of The Dead Sea Scrolls (the Qumran Caves Scrolls), ancient Jewish religious manuscripts discovered between 1946 and 1956 at the Qumran Caves near Ein Feshkha in the West Bank, on the northern shore of the Dead Sea. Dating from the 3rd century BCE to the 1st century CE, the Dead Sea Scrolls are considered to be a keystone in the history of archaeology with great historical, religious, and linguistic significance because they include the oldest surviving manuscripts of entire books later included in the biblical canons, along with deuterocanonical and extra-biblical manuscripts which preserve evidence of the diversity of religious thought in late Second Temple Judaism. They also cast new light on the emergence of Christianity and of Rabbinic Judaism. Most fragments suffer from heavy encrustation due to the passage of time.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls)