The style of the present bust is very close to that of two virtually identical representations of Omphale by the seventeenth century Flemish sculptor, Lucas Faydherbe, one of which is signed (Brussels and Penny, locs. cit.). If not actually by Faydherbe, it must be the work of an extremely close associate. Although a female figure clad in armour usually represents Pallas Athene, who sprang fully armed from the head of her father, Zeus, in this instance the inscription suggests another possibility. If 'R. AMAS' is an abbreviation of REGINA AMASONARUM, then this must be Hippolyta, the legendary Queen of the Amazons.