PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 323-30 B.C.

This fragment comes from a statue of a standing female figure, possibly representing a Ptolemaic Queen, maybe Arsinoe II, holding the 'lily sceptre'. For similar examples see A. Donadoni et al., Il Museo Egizio di Torino, Novara, 1993, p. 207, now in the collection of the Egyptian Museum in Turin, inv. no.5466 and S. Albersmeier, Untersuchungen Frauenstatuen Ptolemäischen Ägypten, Mainz, 2002, pp. 29-32, pl. 75, for statues in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, inv. no. JE39406, and the National Archaeological Museum, Florence, inv. no. 6315.
The hieroglyphic inscription over the back pillar reads '[...] (sweet) of love, ruler of Upper and Lower Egypt [...]'.