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Hugo Lundhaug posted another relevant paper:
https://www.academia.edu/3351656/Shenou ... i_Codex_II
(HT Paleojudaica)

Speaking of earlier texts on lead widely regarded as fake: the lead books of Sacromonte in Spain. These lead-laced sheets were claimed to be deposited by first century Arabic-speaking Christians.... But were unknown until the 16th century. So a parallel (neither ancient nor modern) might suggest for...

DCH, If the rings were extruded through a die (if examination by experts established that), yes, that might be a dating factor, though lead may be malleable enough to produce these rather crude items in another manner. Of course, yes, anyone is free to propose a medieval date, which might be more pl...

So far I have encountered no good reason to regard the recently-publicized lead tablets as anything other than modern fakes, but here are two more sites on them, if interested: 1) https://www.academia.edu/30292465/The_Jordanian_Lead_Books_David_Elkingtons_Sensationalism_and_Plagiarism_A_Statement (m...

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2011_0 ... 8247746754
"Hebrew-Inscribed-Metal-Codices Watch: A Fake" and, if interested, links there.

Reused lead for modern forgery, probably.

'The newly found inscription, carved on the stone in Greek, is missing a part, but is thought to have originally read: “The city of Dor honors Marcus Paccius, son of Publius, Silvanus, governor of the province of Judea as well as … of the province of Syria, and a patron of the city of Dor”.' read mo...

Speaking of forgery and (SBL meeting in) San Antonio, a reminder of a proposed--not proven, as far as I know!--hint of a forgery source, here’s a link to discussion of the faked Demotic version of parts of the Gospel of Thomas supposedly reprinted from an 1875 New Orleans publication and offered to ...

I was behind, bibliographically; there is a publication (though I haven't got a full copy): Sarah Goler, James T. Yardley, Angela Cacciola, Alexis Hagadorn, David Ratzan and Roger Bagnall. "Characterizing the age of ancient Egyptian manuscripts through micro-Raman spectroscopy." Journal of Raman Spe...

Harvard Crimson: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/11/11/papyrus-christianity-divinity-school/ No peer-reviewed publication is mentioned there. Commentary by Harvard Classics Prof. Emeritus Christopher Jones: https://www.academia.edu/29812018/The_Gospel_of_Jesus_Wife_redux?auto=download A prev...