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Roughly carved in the round; with a rather rounded face, eyes wide open with prominent lids. The head is crowned by a Phrygian cap. Ringlets of hair hang to either side of the face, but is shown as a plain band on the forehead. The sides and back of the head have on the whole been only roughly worked. The head is fractured at the neck, with the lower part of the face and the tip of the cap having been chipped away.

These heads probably adorned tombs, as finials. Attis frequently appears in funerary contexts, as a symbol both of death and of life to come.