Sculpture of Emperor as a hero. Rome

This sculpture was found in Sancti Petri waters by a diver in 1905. It represents a male figure, who is nude, with the arms, head, left foot and part of the right foot missing. The weight of the body rests on the right leg, gently tracing the Praxitlean curve. The support of the leg is strengthened from the back by a small pillar in the shape of a trunk. The figure is wearing a folded chlamys over his left shoulder which falls down his back. It represents the figure of an Emperor as a hero and has been assigned to the Hadrian period.