Funeral relief of a young spearbearer walking with his horse. The figure is closely derived from the free-standing Doryphoros of Polykleitos. It was found at Argos, which was Polykleitos’s place of birth.

The heavy spear of the original, a weapon of war, has been converted into an athlete’s javelin for the purposes of this relief; the hair of the young man appears to be tied like that of an athlete, and there are no symbols of battle in the scene