46 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF VICTOR STATUES AT OLYMPIA. 
tall,' 7. ¢., about 6 feet 4.5 inches, somewhat over life-size.2 From 
the same scholiast we learn that the statue of the son of Diagoras, 
the pancratiast Damagetos, was 4 cubits high, or less than that of 
the father by 5 fingers, and consequently just under 6 feet.? ‘The 
footprints on the base of the statue of the boxer Aristion by the elder 
Polykleitos are 29 cm. long, and so the statue was just life-size. There 
are several examples of such life-size statues, while others are slightly 
below life-size.6 The Polykleitan statue of a boxer in Kassel is under 
life-size.”. The marble head of a statue found at Olympia, which we 
ascribe to Philandridas, the Akarnanian pancratiast, by Lysippos, 
(Frontispiece and Fig. 69) is also under life-size,® as is also that of the 
pancratiast Agias found at Delphi (Pl. 27 and Fig. 68). These two are 
in harmony with Pliny’s statement that Lysippos made the heads of 
his statues relatively small.° Perhaps this statement of Pliny was 
the basis of the opinion of Mueller recorded above that “‘compara- 
tively small heads”’ characterize the whole genre of victor statues. 
We have in the preceding chapter mentioned the marble fragments 
of the statues of boy victors, two-fifths to two-thirds life-size, found at 
Olympia.!° The two marble helmeted heads of the archaic period 
found there, which we shall later ascribe to hoplite victors (Fig. 30), 
are exactly life-size.!! Of the bronze fragments recovered at Olym- 
pia,” the head of a boxer of the fourth century B.C. (Fig. 61, A and B) 
is life-size,'® while the extraordinarily beautifully sculptured right arm 
ascribed to a boy victor by Furtwaengler™ is a little under life-size. 

1Pollux, Onomastikon, I, 158, says that the cubit (ajxvs) contains 24 daxridor or 6 radacTal; it 
was therefore 18.25 inches and the finger 0.7 inch long. Though the cubit was later lengthened 
to about 2 feet, the old size was retained for measuring wood and stone: = Boeckh, Metro- 
logische Untersuchungen, 1838, pp; 212: 
Scherer, p. 11, gave its height as 6 feet and 5 inches. 
’Diagoras wonin Ol. 79 (=464 B. C.):P., VI, 7.1; Hyde, 59; Foerster, 220; cf. Inschr. v. Ol., 151 
(renewed); Damagetos in Ols. 82-3 (=452-448 B. C.): Oxy. Pap.; P., VI, 7.1; Hyde, 62; Foerster, 
253% ef dl nsche. a. Ole ASL 
4Inschr. v. O!., 165 (renewed); he won Ol. 82 (=452 B. C.): Oxy. Pap.; P., VI, 13.6; Hyde, 115; 
Foerster, 376. 
5. g., Inschr.v. Ol., nos. 147-8, Tellon, who won the boys’ boxing match in Ol. 77 (=472 B.C.): 
Oxy. Pap.; P., VI, 10.9; Hyde, 102; Foerster, 237; ibid., 155 (renewed), Hellanikos, boy boxer, 
who won in OI. 89 (=424 B. C.): P., VI, 7.8; Hyde, 65; Foerster, 263; zbid., 158, boxer Damox- 
enidas, who won some time between Ols. 95 and 100 (=400 and 380 B.C.): P., VI, 6.3; Hyde, 54; 
Foerster, 319; tbid., 164, Xenokles, boy wrestler, who won some time between Ols. (?) 94 and 
100 (=404 and 380 B. C.): P., VI, 9.2; Hyde, 85; Foerster, 308; i2id., 177, Telemachos, chariot 
victor some time between Ols. (?) 115 and 130 (=320 and 260 B. C.): P., VI, 13.11; Hyde, 122; 
Foerster, 513. 
6. g., Inschr. v. Ol., 182, Thrasonides, who won xéAnre wwAck@ in the third century B. C. 
7Furtw., Mp., p. 246, fig. 99; Mw., p. 447, fig. 69. See p. 155. 
8See Chapter VI., infra, p. 295. OA UN XR UV Sebo: 
10Supra, p. 28 and n. 1; Bildw. v. Ol., Textbd., pp. 216 f.; Tafelbd., Pl., LVI, 2-4; cf. Furt- 
waengler, SOstes Berl. Winckelmannsprogr., 1890, pp. 147 f.; cf..infra, Ch. VII, pp. 324-5, c. d.e. 
1 Bildw. v. Ol., Textbd., pp. 29 f; Tafelbd., Pl. VI, 1-4, 9-10; cf. infra, pp. 162-3. 
See Inschr. v. Ol., pp. 234-5; Bronz. v. Ol., Textbd., pp. 10-12; cf. infra, p. 322 and notes 1-7. 
13Bronz. v. Ol., Textbd., pp. 10-11; Tafelbd., Pl. II, 2, 2a; F. W., no. 323; etc. 
“Bronz. v. OL., Textbd., p..12; Cafelbd? Plo 1V,/5, SaxFa Wa 42>. 
