Circular bread stamp, enclosed by two incised lines, with a ring of dots in between.  The central motif in the shape of a rosette with twelve petals. The decoration of the disc suggests its exceptional character. Presumably, it was used to impress designs on votive bread offered in the temple. Herodotus (a Greek historian from the 5th century BC) mentions the Egyptian custom of presenting bread to a deity with a representation of the offerings it was supposed to be a substitute for. On the occasion of the festival of Adonis (a figure in Greek mythology), pieces of bread with impressions of flowers, birds and animals were baked in Alexandria. Similar objects have been found during excavations in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. Their decoration takes various, often figural, forms. It shows various deities or even scenes (e.g. Eros, i.e. the god of love riding on a dolphin) known from the repertoire of the art of the Greco-Roman Period. The custom described above was widespread in Christian Egypt, where it has survived to the present day.