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... the apparent care taken in making them (and, if fraudulent, elaborately creating the impression of age), they are really quite uninformative. The vast majority of the sheets are covered in a limited repertoire of standard Jewish images -menorahs, date-palms, stars, cups, grape clusters, together with fragments of wall and palaeo-Hebrew letters ( Fig. 1 shows a fairly typical example). Some of the lettering is quite formal, closely resembling Jewish and Samaritan writing in use two millennia ago. Other scripts are less formal, while some of the letters are unrecognisable and the yod is often written backwards. The letters are mostly purely decorative, sometimes in repeated sequences ...