The greatly attenuated figure wears a peplos girt just beneath her breasts. Two long broad folds fall from r. arm to feet, with zigzag folds on the surface. The lower garment has deep, swallow-tail folds. The r. leg, drawn back, is revealed; the l. leg on which figure is poised, is barely seen beneath the drapery. In back the peplos hangs low, and is largely unarticulated.

The figure is a Hellenistic (Pergamene) variation of the Phidian Athena Parthenos, but has no attributes to identify her. Traces of drilling are in the deep folds but the piece is largely worked with chisels and abrasives. The technique appears to be Hellenistic, 2nd C. B.C., but a Roman copyist is possible.

Small-crystalled grayish white marble.

Arms, neck, head missing. Much chipping, some recent. In the back are a dowel hole (L. 0.035) and an iron dowel (L. 0.15) for attaching the head, and a dowel hole and iron fragment are on r. side for attaching r. arm.