The head, tilted to the left, shows a youthful face with a bright gaze, with hair gathered in a chignon at the nape of the neck; on the head one can make out traces of the right hand, while on the back the workmanship is sketchy. The head must have belonged to a statue that can be framed as a replica of the Lycian Apollo, which can be traced back to the original statue of the deity in the Gymnasium of Athens. The original creation, dating from the 4th century BC, is attributed to the sculptor Euphranor. The Museum's replica, of good workmanship, can be dated to between the end of the 1st and the beginning of the 2nd century AD.
The head, broken at the neck, was found in a residential building in Via Giolitti in Rome in 1940.