what is this? why is there a satanic symbol on it? it looks hebrew. what does it say?

by poshpotdllr

https://i.redd.it/a0qg24puzhc21.jpg

what is this? why is there a satanic symbol on it? it looks hebrew. what does it say?

not sure if fake. looks like its on display, perhaps at a museum

gingerkid1234

This picture seems to have come up in a picture of antiquities in Turkey which were recovered from smuggling. Some questions came up on reddit when it first appeared on the internet.

I do not know what this text is. My suspicion is that it is a fake ancient Jewish text. The Hebrew is mostly gibberish. It could be a mystical text or something, but there are non-final letters at ends of lines, which makes it more likely to be gibberish. It could also be another language in Hebrew script--Aramaic is often written in the same alpabet (technically Hebrew is almost always written in the Aramaic alphabet), but this doesn't look to me to be coherent Aramaic. It could also be another language written in Hebrew characters, which is common for Jewish languages, but the final letters would still probably used there (the only Jewish language orthography to not use final letters is the Soviet Yiddish orthography, which was used for a short window of time). The symbols are either not Jewish symbols or aren't quite right. The style of stitching also isn't similar to how Jewish scrolls are generally made, and the style of the border is weird too. Though I'm nowhere near an expert in paleography or manuscript identification more generally.