We may notice here a work which, though perhaps of somewhat later date, illustrates the Panhellenic character of Olympia. The old tripod on which the branches of sacred olive tree for the prizes were placed, was replaced by an ivory and gold table, the work of Colotes of Heraclea,[142] a disciple of Pheidias, who assisted the latter in constructing the chryselephantine statue of Zeus. The table was kept in the Heraeum and at the time of the festival was placed beside the seat of the Hellanodicae in the stadium. On one side were representations of Hera and Zeus, of the Mother of the Gods, Hermes, Apollo, and Artemis. On the other side were figures of Pluto and Persephone, recalling those ancient Chthonic cults which had existed at Olympia from time immemorial, and of which many traces survive, especially to the east of the Altis. The activity of the Eleans had, as we have seen, put an end to architectural dedications by other states; but the piety of the Greek world found expression in the dedication of statues and votive offerings. During the nine Olympiads which followed the Persian wars 476-444 B.C., no less than thirty-five statues of victors were set up on the Altis, while in the next nine Olympiads the number drops to twenty.[143] These statistics bear out the date of the change in Greek athletics which will be discussed in the next chapter. Footnote 101: A. Furtwängler, _Die Bedeutung der Gymnastik in der griechischen Kunst_. Footnote 102: x. ll. 21 ff. (Bergk). Footnote 103: _Greek Sculpture_, Fig. 25; cp. _B.C.H._, 1907, p. 187. Footnote 104: _Greek Sculpture_, Figs. 34, 35, 36. Footnote 105: Cp. a fine archaic bronze diskobolos in the Metropolitan Museum of New York, published in the _Museum Bulletin_, iii. p. 33; _vide infra_ Fig. 83. Footnote 106: Such attributes are common in bronzes, cp. Pausanias v. 26, 3; 27, 12; vi. 3, 9; 10, 4; 13, 7. Footnote 107: Paus. vi. 10, 1-3. Footnote 108: Paus. i. 23, 9. Footnote 109: Cp. Walter Pater, _Greek Studies_, pp. 281 ff. Footnote 110: Vide Krause, _Gym._ pp. 943 ff., a criticism of the exaggerated view put forward in Becker’s _Charicles_. Footnote 111: Cp. Aristoph. _Nub._ 995— ἄλλο τε μηδὲν αἰσχρὸν ποιεῖν, ὅ τι τῆς Αἰδοῦς μέλλει τἄγαλμ’ ἀναπλήσειν. The Spartans considered Αἰδῶς a goddess, Xen. _Symp._ 8, 36. Footnote 112: _Vide infra_, Figs. 167 ff. Footnote 113: For the following sections _vide_ Jebb’s _Bacchylides_, Introduction. Footnote 114: Pindar, _N._ v. 49. Footnote 115: _Vide_ the list of Olympic victors for Ol. 75-83 found on an Oxyrhyncus papyrus. Grenfell and Hunt, _Ox. Pap._ ii. 222; C. Robert, _Hermes_, xxxv. pp. 141 ff. Footnote 116: _N._ iii. 70. Footnote 117: _P._ ii. 63. Footnote 118: _I._ i. 47 ff. Footnote 119: _I._ i. 42, iv. 57, v. 10. Footnote 120: Herodotus of Thebes, _I._ i. Footnote 121: