| He tentatively suggested that the text is a pastiche compiled by a modern forger with an elementary grasp of Coptic. |
| It suggested a forger might have selected a relatively smooth area of the back as a place to carve the small, neat characters. |
| They're a charming trio, even if two are murderers and the other is an expert forger and financial trickster. |
| The forger then seized the blank in a pair of tongs and reheated it in his forge or furnace to as high a temperature as the metal could stand without burning up. |
| But the perceived dichotomy in styles may simply signal that the forger was an inexpert copyist or that the effect results from the vagaries of stone carving. |
| Of course these are derivative, too, almost as though Serra were his own pupil, or a forger of his own pieces. |
