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{{short description|First-century CE treasure scroll from the Judean desert}} {{multiple image |image1=Part of Qumran Copper Scroll.jpg |alt1=Part of Qumran Copper Scroll |width1=161 |image2=Part of Qumran Copper Scroll (2).jpg |alt2=Part of Qumran Copper Scroll |width2=201 |footer=Parts of a replica of the Copper Scroll. |footer_align=center }} The '''Copper Scroll''' ([[List of the Dead Sea Scrolls|3Q15]]) is one of the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]] found in [[List of manuscripts from Qumran Cave 3|Cave 3]] near Khirbet [[Qumran]], but differs significantly from the others. Whereas the other scrolls are written on [[parchment]] or [[papyrus]], this scroll is written on [[metal]]: [[copper]] mixed with about 1 percent [[tin]], although no metallic copper remained in the strips; the action of the centuries had been to convert the metal into brittle oxide.<ref>J.T. Milik, ''The Copper Document from Cave III, Qumran'', p. 61</ref> The so-called 'scrolls' of copper were, in reality, two separated sections of what was originally a single scroll about {{convert|2.4|m|ft}} in length. Unlike the others, it is not a [[literary]] work, but a list of 64 places where various items of [[gold]] and [[silver]] were buried or hidden. It differs from the other scrolls in its [[Hebrew]] (closer to the language of the [[Mishnah]] than to the literary Hebrew of the other scrolls, though [[4QMMT]] shares some language characteristics), its [[orthography]], [[palaeography]] (forms of letters) and date ({{circa|50–100 CE}}, possibly overlapping with the latest of the other Qumran manuscripts).<ref>{{cite web |url= https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/opeds/copper |title=The Bible and Interpretation – On the Insignificance and the Abuse of the Copper Scroll |publisher=Bibleinterp.com |access-date=2015-11-26}}</ref> Since 2013, the Copper Scroll has been on display at the newly opened [[The Jordan Museum|Jordan Museum]] in [[Amman]]<ref>{{cite web |url= http://luhot.ru/news/263/72/v-stolitse-iordanii-ammane-otkryt-novyj-iordanskij-muzej-hranyaschij-vazhnejshie-artefakty-biblejskoj-arheologii |title=Новости – Библейский альманах "Скрижали" |publisher=Luhot.ru |date=2013-07-29 |access-date=2015-11-26}}</ref> after being moved from its previous home, the [[Jordan Archaeological Museum]] on Amman's Citadel Hill. A new [[facsimile]] of the Copper Scroll by Facsimile Editions of London<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.facsimile-editions.com/en/ds |title=Dead Sea Scrolls |publisher= Facsimile Editions |access-date=2015-11-26}}</ref> was announced as being in production in 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/copied-copper-scroll-is-one-to-treasure-1.56789 |title=Copied copper scroll is one to treasure |publisher=The Jewish Chronicle |date=5 September 2014 |access-date=15 June 2017}}</ref>
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