oo. EARLY GREEK GAMES AND PRIZES. 
Hesiod.! Frequently such dedications were tripods; thus a Pythian 
tripod was dedicated to Herakles at Thebes by the Arkadian musician 
Echembrotos in 586 B. C.;? a tripod was dedicated in the sixth century 
B. C. or perhaps earlier at Athens for some acrobatic or juggling trick;* 


a victorious boxer dedicated one at Thebes.4 It became customary by 
the fifth century B. -wictors at the 7riopia to offer prize tripods to 
Apollo.6 Tripods or fragments of them have been found at Olympia® 
erat tee Many other objects were also offer¢d<’ Sometimes 
a Vi uld dedicate the object by which he won his victory in- 
Brac eta cere nee as a soldier might dedicate his arms instead of 
his spoils of war. Certain types of victors, ¢. g., those especially in 
running, the race in armor, singing, etc., And be excluded from 
making such dedications owing to the nature of the contest. Pausan- 
ias® tells us, for instance, that twenty-five bronze shields were kept 
in the temple of Zeus at Olympia for the use of hoplite runners, which 
shows that these runners did not use all at least of their own armor. 
In some cases diskoi were lent to pentathletes. Pausanias? says that 
three quoits were kept in the treasury of the Sikyonians at Olympia 
for use in the pentathlon. There are, however, as we shall see, 
instances of quoits being dedicated by victors. The pentathlete 
might consecrate either his diskos, javelin, or jumping-weights.!° Per- 
haps the huge red-sandstone block of the sixth century B. C., weighing 
315 pounds and inscribed with the name and feat of Bybon, may have 
been such an ex voto," since Pausanias says the contestants at Olympia 
originally used stones for quoits.’” A stone, weighing 480 kilograms 
(about 1,056 pounds), was found on Thera, inscribed ““Eumastos raised 
me from the ground.’’® Poplios (Publius) Asklepiades, who won the 
pentathlon at Olympia in the third century A. D.,’* dedicated a bronze 
diskos to Zeus, showing the old custom was kept up till late. Many 
bronze diskoi have been found in the excavations of the Altis..° We 
have instances of the dedication of jumping-weights (&Arpes).*® 
Examples of dedicated strigils have been found at Olympia.” Torches 
were dedicated at Athens.!8 Actors dedicated their masks,!® while 
10p., 654 f£.; cf. P., IX, 31.3. The spurious epigram in 4.G., VII, 53, may have been engraved 
on this tripod set up in the temple on Mt. Helikon. 
2P ee 26. 3C. I. A., IV, 37379; another is mentioned 7d7d., I, 493. 4Hdt., V, 60. 
’Hdt., I, 144. | *Bronz. v. Ol., pp. 72 f. 7See Rouse, pp. 153 f. 8V, 12.8. 
9VI, 19.4. 10Cf, Rouse, p. 160 and Reisch, p. 62 and n. 1. 
See Rouse, /. c.; for the inscription, J. G. 4., 370. 1277, 29.9. 
137, G. A., XIII, 449; see discussion of both stones in J. H. S., XXVII, 1907, pp. 2 f. 
M47 n Ol. 255 (=241 A. D.); Foerster, 739; Inschr. v. Ol., 240-1. 15See Bronz. v. Ol., p. 179. 
16. g., the inscribed lead weight of the seventh or sixth centuries B. C., found at Eleusis and 
dedicated by Epainetos: C. J. 4., IV, 2, 4224; cf. Arch. Eph., 1883, pp. 189-91. 
17 Bronz. v. Ol., Textbd., p. 180; Tafelbd., Pl. LXV, 1101 a.; cf. another from the Cyrenaica in 
the British Museum: B. M. Bronzes, no. 326. 
18C. I. G., I, 243; C. I. 4., III, 1, 124; Rhein. Mus., XXXIV, 1879, p. 206; on prize torches, see 
A.G., VI, 100, and cf. Kaibel, Epigr. gr., 1878, 943. 
19Kallim., XLIX; 4. G., VI, 311; cf. Reisch, pp. 62 and 145-6, figs. 13, 14; Rouse, pp. 162-3. 
