Diadumenos

The Athens example, with the quiver in view. National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Height: 1.95 metres (6 feet 4 inches)

Reconstruction, in a patinated cast at the Pushkin Museum, Moscow

The Diadumenos (Ancient Greek: διαδούμενος, romanized: diadúmenos, 'diadem-bearer', the winner of an athletic contest at a games), together with the Doryphoros (spear bearer), are two of the most famous figural types of the sculptor Polyclitus, forming a basic pattern of Ancient Greek sculpture that all present a strictly idealized representations of young male athletes in a naturalistic manner.

The Diadumenos is still nude after the contest, and is lifting his arms to knot the diadem, a headband that identifies the winner, which in the bronze original of about 420 BCE would have been represented by a bronze ribbon. The figure stands in contrapposto with his weight on his right foot, his left knee slightly bent and his head inclined slightly to the right, self-contained, seeming to be lost in thought. Phidias was credited with a statue of a victor at Olympia in the act of tying the fillet around his head; besides Polyclitus, his successors Lysippos and Scopas also created figures of this kind.