 It has also been suggested that the youth is a depiction of Perseus holding the head of the slain Gorgon.It could also be the God Apollo, a "Learned" Hermes holding a caduceus and declaiming, an athlete holding some sort of prize (a spherical lekythion), or a sphere, a wreathe, a phiale, or an apple.The statue could even be the funerary statue of a young man.