Found badly mutilated in the amphitheatre at Capua, this sculpture is incorrectly named and more likely represents Aphrodite (see also:Aphrodite of Cnidos; Aphrodite of Arles; Aphrodite of Melos; Aphrodite Anadyomene; Crouching Aphrodite). Earlier believed to be by Praxiteles (see also: Hermes and the Infant Dionysus; Apollo Lykeios), it is rather a copy after a work by Scopas, having characteristic sloping shoulders, globe-shaped breasts, peculiar mouth and dilated nostrils, the ear slanting back with the lobe close to the head. (See also: Head of Hypnos; Head of Hygieia.)

The figure originally leaned its weight on the right leg and drew the drapery, which covered the lower part of the body, over the left shoulder with the left hand. The head, turned to the right and bent down, suggests the figure may have been part of a group, perhaps with Eros (see: Head of Eros) holding a mirror.