Philoctetes. Relief in white marble inlaid with red and purplish grey breccia marble. The relief is framed at the top and sides by a flat border; at the base is a shallow projecting platform. To the left there is a step inlaid with coloured marble. Philoctetes, a bearded male nude carved almost in the round, is seated on a tree trunk which rises from the platform. He faces to the left with his right leg extended across the relief and his right foot raised on the projecting step. With his left hand he clasps the tree trunk, and with his right, he fans the inflamed wound in his right calf with a bird's wing. In the left background are two columns and the entablature of a temple, and on the right is a tree, to which are tied a bow and quiver full of arrows.