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GINSBURG’S SCRIPT CHART. This script chart dates to 1883. Made by Christian D. Ginsburg’s group for the British Museum, it compares the letter forms on the Shapira Scrolls (right columns) to the scripts of the Moabite Stone, as well as Phoenician and Hebrew inscriptions known at the time (left columns). While the chart shows an overall similarity between the letter forms found in the Shapira Scrolls and the Moabite Stone, five of the scrolls’ letter forms are unparalleled in any ancient Hebrew inscriptions and, in fact, most closely resemble forms attested in the fake Moabitica.