This sculpture - very well conserved - is attributed by various researchers to the sculptor Pasiteles; it was created in the early Roman Empire (first half of the first century AD). The characters are usually named "Orestes and Electra" after the Mycenian siblings in the myth, the children of king Agamemnon. However there is no certainty about the original names. The young man is linked to the strangely masculine figure of a young woman who lovingly puts her hand around his shoulder. The modelling of the robes is suggestive of the austere style of the early fifth century BC. The Roman sculptor combines stylistic elements of the fifth and fourth century BC which leads to an ambiguous artistic impression.