Nikeratos and his son Polyxenos were metics from Istros on the Black Sea coast.
According to the museum’s information label: “…The youth, flanked by his father and a servant with himation and the (missing) ustensils of the palaistra, stands in front of the back panel of Hymettian marble. The sculpture types of the youth and of the servant have clearly been influenced by the works of Lysippos. Painted architectural mouldings and traces of polychromy on the frieze are preserved. Found in Kallithea.
Exhibited at the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus, Greece.