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Polyhedron with Greek Lettering (Die)

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 37.453E. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 37.453E
Find spot: Abusir, Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Ptolemaic or later
Date: 305–30 B.C.E., or later
Date range: 305 BCE – 30 BCE
Materials: ['Steatite']
Height: 3.0 cm
Width: 3.0 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Polyhedron with Greek Lettering (Die) (37.453E). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/18168

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Description

Caption: Polyhedron with Greek Lettering (Die), 305–30 B.C.E., or later. Steatite, 1 3/16 x 1 3/16 x 1 3/16 in. (3 x 3 x 3 cm) Weight: 0.1 lb. (31.7 g). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.453E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A small, rounded polyhedral stone object photographed on a neutral background, with shallow carved markings on one face that resemble letter-like or symbol-like incisions.

The object appears to be a compact polyhedron (die-like) made of dark greenish stone. Its faces are mostly flat with rounded edges from wear. One visible face shows shallow, incised strokes arranged in a configuration that could be consistent with Greek-letter-style or other alphabetic/lettering marks, but the exact characters are not legible at this resolution. No clear Egyptian hieroglyphs, cartouches, or royal titles are identifiable. No deities are depicted in a discernible manner. The image shows no separate inscription bands; any text-like marks are confined to the carved surface of the die face.

decorative Ptolemaic or later (per catalogue); specific lettering not legible to refine further. good

Materials stone (greenish; catalogue specifies steatite)

Signs incised letter-like mark (exact character unknown)

Visible text "unknown (Greek-lettering claimed by catalogue, but characters are not clearly readable in the image)."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

unknown (Greek-lettering claimed by catalogue, but characters are not clearly readable in the image).

Connections

Found at Abusir

Materials Stone

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.453E tier-2
BKM-Object 117102 tier-2

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From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.