Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic ArtHyde, Walter Woodburn
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Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art
Hyde, Walter Woodburn
Olympics; Sculpture, Greek; Sports -- Greece
same wall; that of Akestorides (119), whose name I have inserted in the
lacuna in the text of Pausanias (VI, 13.7),[2328] just northeast of the
base of Telemachos.[2329] Thus the series of statues from that of Gelo
to that of Agathinos (90-121a, P., VI, 9.4-13.11) can be grouped in the
zone of the _Chariots_.
As the fragment of the base of the statue of the Athenian pancratiast
Aristophon (123) was found near the base of Telemachos, but to the
east of it, and likewise that which supported the equestrian monument
of Xenombrotos and Xenodikos (133-134) still further to the east near
the Echo Colonnade,[2330] we can conclude that the twenty-one statues
from Aristophon to Prokles (123-138, P., VI, 13.11-14.13), mostly
of the fifth century B. C., stood near the South Altis wall to the
east (and not to the west of the base of Telemachos, where all other
investigators have wrongly placed them),[2331] and thus form a group
which we can call the zone of _Telemachos_. So we conclude that the
long list of statues from Pyrilampes to Prokles (35-138), nearly
two-thirds of all those mentioned in the first ἔφοδος of Pausanias,
stood in the space to the east and southeast of the temple of Zeus,
grouped in the parallel zones of the _Bull_, _Victory_, _Chariots_, and
_Telemachos_.
On the other hand, the statues beginning with the two of Aischines
(139) and extending to that of Philonides (154 a) (P., VI, 14.13-16.5)
must have stood to the west of the base of Telemachos and along the
South Terrace wall some 20 meters south of the temple of Zeus, where
many of the following pedestals were found in the order named by
Pausanias: that of Aischines (139) was found in the Council-house;
that of Archippos (140) nearby between the South Terrace wall and the
north wing of the Council-house; that of Epitherses (147) opposite the
sixth column of the temple from the west, some eleven paces from the
South Terrace wall, and the fragment of the base of the honor statue of
Antigonos (147 f) very near it; the bronze foot of one of the statues
of Kapros (150) was found in the South Terrace wall, 24.40 meters from
the southwest corner of the temple; and lastly, the base of the “honor”
statue of Philonides (154 a), Alexander’s courier, was found in the
southwest corner of the Altis at the extreme west end of the South
Terrace wall, almost, if not exactly, in its original position.[2332]
Thus Pausanias, after coming south to the statue of Telemachos, first
goes eastward as far as the statue of Prokles, then returns, repassing
the two chariots on the way without remark, and then continues westward
to the southwestern corner of the Altis. All statues west of that
of Telemachos are of the fifth and fourth centuries B. C., with the
exception of one, that of Eutelidas (148), who won in Ol. 38. This is
the oldest statue in the Altis, despite Pausanias’ statement,[2333] and
it doubtless originally stood in the area occupied later toward the
middle of the fifth century B. C.
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