Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Recataloged to 21-117, accession number 8-5117, described as Cast of spearman, antique copy of the Doryphoros, a bronze statue by Polykleitos of Argos. From a marble statue of the Naples National Museum, found in a building which has since been identified as the palaestra (or gymnasium) of the city, at Pompeii, in 1797. Friederichs, Der Dory phoros des Polyklet and Archaeol. Leihing 1864, page 149, discovered the Naples statue’s derivation from the masterpiee of Polykleitos. For antique testimony about it consult Overbeck’s Schriftquellen and H. Stuart Jones s.v. For the extant copies, Furtwaengler’s Masterpieves s.v. and Mahler’s monograph Polykleitos. Their number alone indicates a work of great celebrity. The young man carried a spear on his left shoulder. His right hand hung idle. It is the pose of a dismounted horseman on a relief at Argos, Fr. -W. 504. The statue has a primitive stockiness and heaviness of figure, as a comparison with the Apoxyomenos of Lysippos shows. Its face, too, is of early type. So is its flat hair, which a later age modeled fuller, a mark of the work’s early date. This statue (original) is the best preserved, but by no means the best, artistically, of the extant antique copies. Berlin has a bettrer one of the torse-Casts no. 160--in the Pointales Collection. Right knee softer, veins indicated, more detail on back. Another----- The wiry yhandling of the hair betrays a bronze original, in which we should of course, have no tree trunk support introduced. The work has been conjecturally identified with the one which Antiquity called the Canon of Polykleitos. But it is not credible that the master composed that as a model for his pupils. The spear of a champion spear-thrower would be a light one. The one in the relief is heavy. The Doryphoros was perhaps a sepulchral portrait. The terms ?opúøopos desgnates, usually, the bodyguard of a prince. Republican Argos knew no such service. The name is the late one of an early work. The lambda part of the hair is rather peculiar to Polykleitos, and facilitates the recognition of copies of his states, both in large marbles and small bronzes.