The sculpture depicts a thoughtful young girl seated on a stool: she is recollected on herself with her bust forward, her legs crossed with her right foot resting on a slight rise of the base, while her left foot is free, giving the impression of rocking. This is an early Hadrianic copy of a Hellenistic model, universally identified as the Tyche of Antioch, made by Eutychides, a pupil of Lysippus, at the beginning of the 3rd century BC, reinterpreted in an intimistic manner. The construction of the sculpture is designed to be observed from all possible viewpoints and each part is extremely well finished. When the nymphaeum known as the Temple of Minerva Medica began to fall into disrepair, the sculpture was reused as building material in the filling of a wall built to close one of the large niches. It was there that it was found in 1879.