The majority of its body (torso, legs, arms, and feet) is made of hippopotamus tooth covered with gold foil, but the hair part of the head is carved from gray-green serpentinite with rock-crystal eyes and ivory details.

The face is completely missing, but the elaborate stone hairstyle, with "a shaved scalp and Mohawk-like crest", survives.

[1] The figure presumably represents the "young god" who had appeared relatively recently in Minoan religion, as a consort or son (or both?)

[2] The figure has been burnt and apparently also deliberately smashed up, probably in the invasion of Crete by Mycenean Greece that is thought to have taken place around 1450 BC, when the city of Palaikastro was badly burned.

A thorough and careful water-sieving of six tons of soil from the site then produced hundreds of further fragments, including most of the feet, the eyes, and part of an ear.