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
Nineteen inscribed base-fragments have been referred to the
post-Christian centuries, thirteen to the first, three to the
second, and three to the third. The spaces around the temple of Zeus
(especially its eastern front) are again the favorite ones. Thus the
bases of three statues were found east of the temple (one _in situ_),
two near its southeastern corner, three at the northeastern corner
(one, that of Germanicus Cæsar, the nephew of Tiberius, just to the
north of the _Eretrian Bull_, and so originally standing here near
that of his uncle), while another stood opposite the fifth column from
the east on the north side of the temple. Most of these statues must
have been passed by Pausanias in his first ἔφοδος, which is, perhaps,
another evidence of his dependence on older lists in compiling his
own. Two other bases were found to the southwest of the temple, one of
them near its corner, and the other nearer the corner of the Altis,
_i. e._, near the base of the statue of Philonides (154a). Thus eleven
statues stood near the temple. Of the others, four were found in the
vicinity of the Palaistra (one inside _in situ_), one to the northeast
of the Prytaneion, another northeast of the Byzantine church, while the
two remaining ones were found in the eastern part of the Altis, near
the entrance to the Stadion and before the Echo Colonnade respectively.
The base of the last statue of a victor known to have been erected at
Olympia, that of Valerios Eklektos of Sinope, previously mentioned, was
found _in situ_ in the Palaistra. We append a detailed list of these
bases, giving the provenience of each.
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