The cast depicts a young woman dressed in a Doric peplos, with her left arm slightly outstretched, probably in the act of holding a situla, or another vase for water, while with her right hand raised she removes the labrum, which must have been on the head. The hair, wavy and gathered behind the nape, is divided by a central parting and tightened by a tapeworm. Already considered a dancer, one of the Danaids is identified in the statue. The original work, from which the cast derives, in bronze and with eyes in glass paste, is now preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Naples; found in Herculaneum, it belonged to the decoration of the Villa dei Papiri and, together with other similar statues, was placed in the small peristyle at the edges of the euripus. The statue is dated to about 50 BC and refers to classical models of the fifth century. B.C