Recognisable as Cupid thanks to the wings, this great torso in marble, with the head and the limbs missing and heavily corroded by lithodomes in the back, was found at the beginning of the 1920s on the seabed of the port of Baia, among the submerged remains of the imperial palace.

It is a well-known type, recurring in various copies, now hosted by a number of museums all over the world, and it is inspired by a Greek model attributable to the school of Praxiteles.