Doryphoros on Roman sculpture

Doryphoros on a Roman sculpture. It is a copy of a Greek original by a Greek sculptor from the 5th century BCE – Polykleitos. Doryphoros means “spear-bearer” in Greek and depicts a young man holding a lost javelin. The artifact is in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.

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