The torso, known as the "Stagnone torso," comes from Mozia (Trapani), a Phoenician colony founded in Sicily in the 8th century BC. It belongs to a statue over 2 meters tall representing a male figure with a bare chest and an Egyptian kilt (shenty), with the right arm outstretched and the hand holding a scroll.

It is not certain where it was originally placed, but it is hypothesized that it is a high-ranking character or a deity, whom the inhabitants tried to save and hide after the conquest of the city in 397 BC by the tyrant Dionysius of Syracuse.