Benguiat’s trademark exaggeration and showmanship comes through in the catalogue of his collection published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, when it was on loan there in 1908. The entry for this piece in the catalogue reads: “Mr. Benguiat thinks that the disk originated soon after the destruction of the Temple, and that only two copies of it are known to be in existence. It was perhaps intended for an amulet.” While likely to have been intended as an amulet, Benguiat’s guess about its classical date (70 CE) is dubious.