The Statue of a Queen which was made during the Ptolemaic Dynasty is a fine piece of art.
Although that this statue was found without any inscriptions, it is for sure that it is a figure of a .
queen or a female deity, since in the Ptolemaic Dynasty queens had a predominant role and could .
set up their statues in all the temples.
Standing on a solid stone base, the statue has "frontality" because it is mainly meant to be .
viewed from the front. That wasn't unusual for a statue to have this frontality during that time .
since you were meant to see this art object only from one angle; the front. If we look at it from .
behind, we cannot really distinguish much since the statue's back is attached to a stone slab - a .
typical posture that gave to the people who saw it the sense of stability, solidness and eternity, .
since there was always something to hold her and keep her frigid. This strength is also implied by .
the material used to make the statue, hard solid stone; almost rocklike. If we closely observe the .
left-hand side of the statue whose arm was sliced off we can see how rough and uneven this kind .
of stone is. It's almost hard to believe how they could achieve such clarity in shaping the queen .
with the amount of limited tools they had. .
The queen shown here has another typical feature found on most art pieces of that period; she .
is stepping forward. A posture mainly found on male statues, which showed fearlessness and the .
act of stepping into eternity. We can see here that the resembled queen was not afraid to take .
chances, risk or even step into the enemy to defend her people and her nation. It shows to the .
people that she had ultimate power, and the will to defend them anytime and at any costs.
Something that is also very manlike in this statue are the tight fists of the queen. Something .
that was not usual to be seen on female statues. We see them being closed, having a firm grasp, .
