The Discophoros, also spelled Discophorus, meaning "Discus-Bearer" is one of the figure's in according to the Classical Greek sculptor Polyclitus. It's so known like the so called Doryphoros. Designed as an example of the "canon" the sculptor developed in the hopes of increasing the realism of the sculpted form, it features a muscular, solidly-built athlete. The marble copies that survive, all dating to the Roman era, feature the addition of a marble tree stump. the stump was needed to support the additional weight of marble, and the weaker nature of marble in shear strength than the original bronze. In Roman marble copies they're a statue, where the atlete has the discus in the hand. in the rule the arms of the athlete are defect. Polykleitos (or Polycletus, Polycleitus, Polyclitus) was a Greek sculptor of the 5th century BC. He was of the school of Argos, a contemporary of Pheidias and in the opinion of the Greeks his equal. ... Doryphoros, also spelled Doryphorus, meaning Spear-Bearer, is the title given to the most well-known work of the Classical Greek sculptor Polyclitus. ...