The relief, coming from Rome, constituted the covering of a niche.
The narration is divided into four moments: a woman on a cart pulled by two oxen led by two children; the same woman raises two torches in front of a temple while her children are on the ground, apparently asleep; the two children with a female figure, standing on a horse-drawn cart; the two children embracing the woman in the first two scenes.

This representation has been interpreted as the myth of Cleobis and Biton, told by the historian Herodotus: the two young men, sons of the priestess of Hera, Cidippe, helped their mother to reach the temple by dragging her chariot. The mother asked Hera to reward her children with the greatest prize that could be given to a mortal, so the young fell into sleep and died: death, in fact, was considered preferable to life. Here the myth has been adapted to the identity of the people to whom the tomb belonged: perhaps two brothers, who died as children, to whom the mother dedicated the monument.