This statuette shows the goddess with the body of a slender and shapely woman, and the head of a lion.  Her iconography always includes a ruff and mane, even though lionesses do not possess this feature.  The sun-disk on her head associates her with the god, Re, whose daughter she is considered.  She is one of the many goddesses who can feature in retellings of the story of the Distant Goddess who leaves Egypt in disgust to live as a wild animal in the Nubian deserts, and who must be coaxed into returning to Egypt in order that love and laughter, music and merriment, can once again be in the land.