A high priest named `Yehezqiyah' (Hezekiah) was a friend of Ptolemy I and settled in Alexandria by 312 BC. Made a minute silver coin with that name. [BA, Sep 1985, p. 166f.]

Thracian Gold is written about by Matthew Brunwasser in Thracian Gold Fever, Archaeology, Mar/Apr 2005, p. 19-25. The article mentions the 4th century BC king Seuthes III and how the discovery of the `Golyamata Kosmatka' tomb near the town of Shipka, located eight miles from Kazanluk, Bulgaria, was made by Georgi Kitov.

The Israel Museum features a griffin marble sculpture from Erez in the northwestern Negeb. The griffin's right paw rests on the Nemesian wheel of fate. A Greek inscription on the base reads, "Year 522, I, Mercurios, son of Alexander, dedicated this statue during my priesthood." The date given in the inscription corresponds to 210/211 AD. The cult of Nemesis was widely practiced in the Roman empire. Subtracting 522-211 gives us ca. 311/310 BC. One event which took place in 310 BC is the murder of the wife of Alexander the Great and his son. Of course the priest Alexander had nothing to do with Alexander the Great, however, could this sculpture have been a memorial to that event because the Jews had become the friends of Alexander the Great sometime before and sympathised with him? [BA, Sep 1986, p. 161]

Examples of Greek names in the 3rd century BC from Egypt include: Psenartemis, Theano, Heras, Herakleides, Tabanabris, Taisit, Senpnouthe, Psenpnouthes, Taias, Senponkhis, Peteuris, Petisis, Pagenes, Sarapion, Psensenargerios and Tatetiphris as found on mummy labels. Female names include Sentabes, Senponkhe, Titet, Tasais, Tsensai, Aritnofrit and Tarenpit.

To see a large section of a granite relief from Behbeit el Hagara, depicting Ptolemy II offering vessels to a god and his cartouche and other hieroglyphic writing see KMT, Vol. 12, Fall 2001, p. 25.