A pentelic marble Roman copy of a Greek original made of bronze, the statue of the type known as Hera Borghese was found in 1923-1924 among the remains of the sunken palaces in Baia.

The original sculpture, dated to the last quarter of the V century B.C., was made by Agoracritus, a disciple of Phidias, or by Polykleitos. It depicts the goddess Hera (though some scholars argue that it may be Aphrodite or Hygeia), covered with a fine and transparent robe, and is today deprived of the head and the right arm. At the height of the left elbow, signs of a clumsy ancient repair may be found.

In the replica made in Baiae there is an element of great interest: the signature of Aphrodisios Athenaios, probably a Greek artist from Attica who founded one of the first workshops in Baiae, probably during the Augustan age.