Statuette of Hathor or a queen

The goddess Hathor, or a queen wearing the head-dress of Hathor, stands with hands clenched on her thighs and left foot advanced on a shallow rectangular base. She wears a tripartite curled wig with fillet surmounted with cow-horns and disk. Behind this is a striated and perforated suspension lug, which shows that the figure was designed to be worn as an amulet. As usual in objects of such small size, the figure appears to be cast solid.

If the object represents a goddess, the absence of a sceptre is a little unusual. The statuette may be one of the Ptolemaic queens who were greatly venerated, possibly Arsinoe II.