Sentence examples for gold tablet from inspiring English sources

Then I believed that I buried a gold tablet for people to find.

A state appellate court in Brooklyn has ordered the family of a Holocaust survivor to return an ancient gold tablet to a German museum.

But when Mr. Flamenbaum immigrated to the United States four years later, he arrived in New York with a wife he had met at the camp and the inscribed gold tablet, which is about the size of a passport photo.

The gold tablet may have served both as a protective amulet during the deceased's lifetime and then, with its insertion into the mouth, possibly on the model of Charon's obol, as a Totenpass.

In 1964 two inscriptions on gold tablets, one in Phoenician and the other in Etruscan, were unearthed at Pyrgi.

When he was 17, Joseph said, an angel named Moroni came to his bedroom to tell him about some gold tablets that had been buried 1,400 years earlier under a nearby rock.

If you already find some aspects of Mormonism exotic and strange — including its start with crystal-gazing Joseph Smith, the buried gold tablets with hieroglyphics and an angel named Moroni — the musical won't assuage your doubts.

The potential for such illumination is seen from the discovery of gold tablets at Pyrgi in 1964 that contain a dedication in Etruscan and Phoenician by the Etruscan king of Caere, Thefarie Velianas, to the syncretized goddess Uni (Juno) Astarte.

Joseph Smith founded the religion in 1830 in upstate New York, telling his followers an angel had appeared to him and handed him the Book of Mormon in the form of gold tablets.

Most of the rest of Steinberg's book takes place at Hill Cumorah, New York, where Joseph Smith said that he'd unearthed the gold tablets of the Book of Mormon, and where Steinberg attempted to participate in an weeklong pageant of the book's story, which Mormons stage each year.

Gold tablets found buried in graves throughout Greece and southern Italy, dating back to the 4th century bce, offer an Orphic account of the geography of the otherworld, warning the deceased to shun the waters of forgetfulness and to recite the passwords that admit one to the company of the blessed.