Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum (institutional record)

This is the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum's own institutional account of its founding and its custody of the Newark Holy Stones collection, a set of inscribed artifacts long debated as either genuine ancient inscriptions or nineteenth century forgeries. As a standing custodial record from the holding institution itself, it is a reliable source for provenance facts, that the museum holds these specific objects and how it came to. Its limit is that it is the institution's own account of itself rather than an independent scholarly analysis of the stones' authenticity, a question mainstream archaeology treats as settled against authenticity and which this atlas's own sourcing on the stones, including Ohio History Connection's independent analysis, addresses directly.