The large white marble sculpture is 2.24 m (7.3 feet) high. Its complex "contrapposto" has been much admired, appearing to position the figure both frontally and in profile. The arrow has just left Apollo's bow and the effort impressed on his musculature still lingers. His hair, lightly curled, flows in ringlets down his neck and rises gracefully to the summit of his head, which is encircled with the "strophium", a band symbolic of gods and kings. His quiver is suspended across his left shoulder. He is entirely nude except for his sandals and a robe ("chlamys") clasped at his right shoulder, turned up on his left arm, and thrown back.