Despite the absence of its head and arms, this sculpture conveys a powerful sense of motion—its flowing drapery suggesting a moment caught mid-stride, as though the figure were moving swiftly through the wind. The dynamic sweep of the garment rising behind her implies action, perhaps the goddess Artemis in the midst of drawing her bow or racing across a battlefield. The sculptor’s mastery in rendering the weight, texture, and fluidity of fabric over the body gives the figure an almost living presence. Paradoxically, the missing parts only heighten its poetic stillness, transforming it into a timeless monument of divine motion and grace, suspended forever in marble.