Polykleitos of Sikyon (Head of Doryphoros)

Head of Doryphoros.
This is the true face of Doryphoros of Polykleitos. It is a faithful copy in the form of a bronze herm and was made by the Athenian Apollonios, about the time of Roman emperor Augustus.
We notice immediately that the face is not the same with the copy of Doryphoros at the Naples museum.
Such is the case with all the other surviving copies in which the face and other characteristics are different.
This is because the artists did not try to make exact copies but only pursued to maintain the general points which Canon had led down.
The head is very important for another reason. It gives additional weight in our assumption that the Doryphoros was actually the Canon since ancient sources do not state this explicitly.