This staue belongs to the impressive sculptural decoration of the temple of Asklepios at Epidaurus, where it formed the right akroterion of the temple΄s west pediment. It represents a Nereid or Aura riding sidesaddle on a horse, which emerges from the Ocean and leaps to the left, towards the pediment΄s peak. She wears a chiton and a himation, which the wind adheres to her body revealing her figure. A similar mounted figure stood on the left edge of the pediment. These two side akroteria framed a central one, which depicted a Nike. They were executed by the sculptor Timotheos, who was responsible for the design and the models of the entire sculptural decoration of the temple of Asklepios.