It is part of the Farnese Collection in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples (Inv.

The statue relates to an ancient cult celebrated in Ephesus (now in İzmir Province, Turkey), where Artemis was venerated in her temple as the goddess of nature and ruler of wild beasts.

Round her neck a handsome collar of cereals fringed with acorns, and above it a design of female figures in bas-relief.

[1] The 1883 handbook identified the objects under the small acorns as symbolic female breasts.

Andrew E. Hill, an Old Testament scholar at Wheaton College, Illinois, wrote in 1992 that the interpretations include identifications of the "'multiple-breasts' as bee or ostrich eggs, grapes, nuts or acorns, bull testicles, some type of jewelry, articles of clothing, or stylized human breasts" and feared that "a truly convincing solution to the problem may never emerge in light of existing archaeological, historical, and iconographic evidence.

Albacini restored the missing alabaster parts, while Valadier was tasked with making the head, hands, and feet in painted bronze.