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The statue is sculpted from a single block, including the back pillar and the parallelepiped base measuring 1.04 m long. The lower part of the base is smooth beneath the engraved cartouches, indicating that this section was visible at its original location in Egypt, not buried.
These cartouches stylise a fortification wall and were used in Egypt to enclose the ethnic or geographic denominations of prisoners. The figure of a prisoner, with the hands chained at the back, would usually come out from the upper part of such a cartouche. On the base of the statue of Darius, the figures outside the cartouches have raised and unchained hands, with the palms facing upwards.
This iconography is based on the Egyptian iconography used to show worship towards the king or the gods and seems to be specifically influenced by the personification of peoples supporting the king’s throne on the facade of the Achaemenid royal tombs. The variation from the typical Egyptian motif of the chained prisoners to the unchained personifications of foreign peoples also marks a meaningful change in the ideology.