[2] Dredged from the bed of the Tiber in Rome, in making piers for the Ponte Garibaldi (1885, bridge completed 1888).

Found in multiple fragments at the bottom of the river, it is conserved in the Museo Nazionale Romano in Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome.

[3][4] The style of the sculpture reflects the school of Phidias, perhaps the young Phidias himself, as Jiří Frel suggested,[5] and Kenneth Clark observed of it, "If only this figure, instead of the Apollo Belvedere, had been known to Winckelmann, his insight and beautiful gift of literary re-creation would have been better supported by the sculptural qualities of his subject.

The pensive reserve of such Apollos provided the iconographical type for Hadrianic portrait heads of Antinous in the following century.

[3] Though it is missing its hand and left arms, the posture of the head and angled shoulder suggests that Apollo was holding something, whether it is a laurel branch or bow.