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1st – 3rd century AD
h. 28 cm; h. 41 cm (with base); w. 16.5 cm
The headless goddess is depicted running to the left, her right breast exposed, followed by a hound leaping in the same direction. The divinity, depicted during a hunting trip, wears a short chiton tightened at the waist by a thin band, a himation that wraps around her left shoulder, and a quiver supported by a baldric crossed over her chest; with her left arm, slightly away from her body, she must have held the bow, while with her raised right hand, she grabbed the arrow to shoot at the prey.
From an iconographic point of view, the work can be traced back to the type of Diana the Huntress, here expressed through the figure of a wild and predatory divinity, yet with extremely feminine forms. The figure is slender and the soft and sinuous folds of the dress give the work lightness and movement: undoubtedly a splendid Roman marble copy of an original Hellenistic bronze.