Sie ORRVICTOR “STATUES. 45 
und Pankratiasten. ‘Though in the main this excellent summary still 
holds good, we are now in a position to correct it in part and to add 
other equally characteristic features to it. We shall briefly discuss, 
therefore, in the light of recent investigations, certain of the charac- 
teristics common to this genre of sculpture—the material and size of 
these statues, their nudity and fashion of wearing the hair, their two- 
fold division into iconic and aniconic, their proportions, and, lastly, the 
assimilation of their appearance to well-known types of hero or god. 
SIZE OF VICTOR STATUES. 
In another section! we show that the overwhelming majority of the 
statues in the Altis were of bronze, though other materials, stone 
and wood, were also used in some cases. As to the size of these 
statues, no hard and fast rule seems to have been followed, but 
we may assume from the evidence at hand that they were in gen- 
eral life-size.2, Lucian would have us believe that the Hellanodikai 
did not allow victors to set up statues larger than life. We know, 
however, that there were exceptions to such arule. In all probability 
the statue of Polydamas of Skotoussa by Lysippos, which Pausanias says 
stood on a high pedestal, was larger than life-size, if we may conjecture 
from its elevated position and the probable source of Pausanias’ remark 
that he “‘was the tallest of men, if we except the so-called heroes and 
the mortal race which preceded the heroes.’ ‘The traces of foot- 
prints on the recovered pedestal of the statue of the Athenian pan- 
cratiast Kallias by the sculptor Mikon show that the statue was larger 
than life-size.’ The footprints on the base of the statue of the Rhodian 
boxer Eukles by the Argive Naukydes are about 33 cm. long, and so the 
statue was slightly over life-size. We know the actual size of at least 
two of these Olympic statues. The scholiast on Pindar, O/. VII, Argum., 
on the basis of a fragment from Aristotle’s lost work on the Olympic 
victors and one from the little-known writer Apollas Ponticus,’ says 
that the statue of the Rhodian boxer Diagoras was 4 cubits and 5 fingers 
1Chapter VII, infra, pp. 321 f. 
2Cf. Furtwaengler-Urlichs, Denkmaeler griech. und roem. Skulptur (Handausgabe’), 1911, 
p. 101. 
8Pro. Imag., 11, pp. 490 f.: ’Axotw ... und’ "Od\vuTiacw é£eivar Tots viKGot pelfous TaV cwuaTov 
dverravat Tovs avdp.iavras, K. T. \.; Scherer, pp. 10 f.; Bildw. v. Ol., Textbd., p. 250. 
4VT, 5.1. On the statue, see E. Preuner, Ein delphisches Weihgeschenck, p. 26; for the re- 
covered sculptured base, see Bildw. v. Ol., Textbd., pp. 209 f.; Tafelbd., Pl. LV. 1-3. Polydamas 
won the pankration in Ol. 93 (=408 B. C.), but his statue was set up long after, in the time of 
Lysippos: Afr.; Hyde, 47; Foerster, 279. 
5Inschr. v. Ol., 146; cf. Scherer, pp. 10-11. He won in Ol. 77 (=472 B. C.): P., VI, 6.1; Oxy. 
Pap.; Hyde, 50; Foerster, 208. 
6Inschr. v. Ol., 159 (renewed); J. G. B., 86. Eukles won in Ols.(?) 90-93, (= 420-408 B. C.): 
P., VI, 6.2; Hyde, 52; Foerster, 297. 
7The lost work of Aristotle is mentioned by Diogenes Laertios, V, 26. For the scholiast, see 
Boeckh, p. 158; and F. H.G., Il, p. 183 (=Aristotle, fragm. 264), IV., p. 307 ‘=Apollas, 
fragm. 7). 
