28 EARLY GREEK GAMES AND PRIZES. 
figure in bronze or marble. Several such bronze figures have been un- 
earthed at Olympia,’ one of which we reproduce in Fig. 2, and we have 
many examples found outside the Altis: ¢. g., a group UE wrestlers,? 
a boxer,® and the arm of a quoit- 
dts tori Rename anaie 
olis, an archaic girl runner from 
Dodona,®> an archaic statuette get 
from Delphi with a loin-cloth,? 4 a 
a bronze quoit-thrower dedicated 
in the Kabeirion,’ the Tuebingen 
bronze hoplite runner® (Fig. 42), 
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ern museums.!” Boy victors espe- 
cially would use the less expensive 
marble for such statuettes and we 
have the remnants of many such 
found in the excavations of the Z 
Altis.!! Pausanias mentions sev- 
eral monuments which were less 
than life-size, ¢. g., a horse among 
the offerings of Phormis, which 
he SayS was “© much inferior in Fic. yea ot Statuette of a Vic-— 
size and shape to all the other Olen from Olympia. 
statues of horses in the Altis,’’” ympia. | 
and the equestrian monuments already discussed. “ven reliefs and 
paintings, in some cases, were offered in lieu-of larger monuments, 
not only for reasons of €conomy, but also because the e a bet- 
ter representation of the contest. ‘This custom-was common at the 
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1Bronz. v. Ol., Textbd., pp. 19 f. (nude youths with lost attributes so that they can not be named 
with vertainty): Tafelbd., Pl. VIII, 47 (the oldest); VII, 48=F. W., 352 (Apollo, following Over- 
beck, Gr. Kunstmyih., IU, Apollon, p. 35, fig. 6); VIII, 49=F. W., 353; VIII, 51-4 and 57 (the 
latter is a boxer of the fifth century B. OE = Fig. 2in text); VI, 50; VI, 59 (right arm of a fifth-cen- 
tury B.C. diskobolos); VI, 63 (right lower leg). Purgold, 4nnali, LVII, 1885, pp. 167 f., makes 
these diskoboloi decorative in character. 
2De Ridder, no. 747. 3Jbid., no. 746. 4Tbid., no. 636. 
5Carapanos, Dodone et ses Ruines, 1878, Pl. XI, 1 and 1 dis ferebabe not Atalanta, as Cara- 
panos suggests on p. 31, no. 4). 
SHLGeHs XXIF1 So Pls. & apd 7A. M., XV, 1890, p. 365. 
8 7b., 1, 1886, pp.2163 f, and Ply EXs Ty T88ipnpe oss. 9Carapanos, op. cit., Pl. XIII, 1. 
10F, g., see E. von Sacken, Die antiken Bronzen des k. k. Muenz- und Antiken-Cabinetes in Wien, 
1871, Pl. 37, fig. 4, and Pl. 45, fig. 1; cf. J. H. S., 1, Pl. V, fig..1, text, pp: 176-7. (sSee stepmom 
which many of the above examples are taken, in Reisch, p. 39, and Rouse, pp. 172 f. 
The seven fragments collected by Treu, which are two-fifths to two-thirds life-size: Bildz. v. 
Ol., Tafelbd., Pl. LVI, 2, (= Fig. 78, infra) and Textbd., p. 216, no. 241; Tafelbd., Pl. LVI, 3, 
4 nd ier bls p. 216, n. 4 and-fig. 242. 
2V, 27.2-3. 
