The statuette, in bronze, something less than two feet high, represented a naked youth drinking from a gourd.

The attitude was perfectly simple.

The lad was squarely planted on his feet, with his legs a little apart; his back was slightly hollowed, his head thrown back, and both hands raised to support the rustic cup.

There was a loosened fillet of wild flowers about his head, and his eyes, under their drooped lids, looked straight into the cup.

On the base was scratched the Greek word Dhipsa, Thirst.