Created by the sculptor Zenodorus, the bronze statue presents a naked male figure in a contrapposto position; “He wears a rayed crown, leans against a column and holds the ship's rudder in his right hand; the rudder rests on a sphere or globe” (Marlowe 226). It was originally located in the vestibule of Nero's Domus Aurea palace, on the Velia hill. The statue, with its resemblance to Nero and its depiction of the sun god Sol, could have been "conceptualized as Nero in the guise of Sol or Sol with the characteristics of Nero's portrait" (Marlowe 227). Over the course of the various emperor reigns, the statue was reconsecrated to represent the Sun by Nero's successor, Vespesian, moved next to the Flavian Amphitheater by Hadrian, reconsecrated in the inscription by Maxentius and again by Constantine. The Arch of Constantine was drawn directly in front of the statue, transforming the way viewers saw it