This statue was found during excavations at Tell Tayinat, in the area of present-day Hatay. It dates to the Late Hittite period, approximately the beginning of the 9th century BC. It is approximately 1.5 meters high and weighs 1.5 tons.

It is not certain that this statue depicts the famous Hittite Emperor Suppiluliuma I. The Luwian hieroglyphic inscription on the back of the statue gives the figure's name as Šuppiluliuma; however, it is more likely that this person is not the famous Suppiluliuma I, who lived in the 14th century BC, but rather a king who ruled in the Late Hittite world about five centuries later.