Created by the sculptor Zenodorus, the bronze statue features a nude male figure in a contrapposto position; “he wears a radiated crown, leans on a pillar and holds in his right hand the rudder of a ship; the rudder rests on a sphere or globe” (Marlowe 226). It originally stood in the vestibule of Nero's Domus Aurea (Golden House) palace on Velian Hill. The statue, with its resemblance to Nero and its depiction of the sun god Sol, could have been "conceptualized as Nero-under-the-disguise-of-Sol or Sol-with-the-portrait-of-Nero" (Marlowe 227) . During the various reigns of emperors, the statue was rededicated to represent Sol by Nero's successor Vespesian, moved next to the Flavian Amphitheater by Hadrian, rededicated in inscription by Maxentius and again by Constantine . The Arch of Constantine was drawn directly in front of the statue, transforming the way spectators saw