GREEK ORIGINALS OF VICTOR STATUES. . 63 
monuments in European museums we shall mention three. The bronze 
head of a boxer in the Glyptothek at Munich (PI. 3) is an original of 
the first rank.’ It is from a statue found near Naples in 1730, which 
was later destroyed, and it probably represents the head of a boy of 
about twelve years, a victor in boxing, to judge from the victor band 
in the hair and the fact that the visible part of the right ear is swollen. 
Like the head of the Diadowmenos of Polykleitos (Figs. 28, 29) this beau- 
tiful head exemplifies fully the “ethical grace” or modesty? so character- 
istic of the best Greek art,and it certainly merits Furtwaengler’s praise 
of being the “most precious treasure of the Glyptothek.”’? Another 
head, found in Beneventum and now in the Louvre (Fig. 3)‘is a splendid 
Greek original of the last decade of the fifth century B.C., and, as Mrs. 
Strong says, should arouse in us a sense of what precious relics may still 
lie hidden in our museums.*> ‘The victor fillet in the hair, consisting of 
two sprays of what seems to be wild olive (remnants of which appear 
in front), shows that the statue must once have ornamented the Altis. 
Like the one in Munich, this head shows Polykleitan inspiration tem- 
pered by Atticinfluence.® Lastly, the bronze head of a youth fromthe 
tablinum of the so-called villa of the Pisos at Herculaneum, now in 
Naples,’ is, to judge from its technique, an excellent original Greek 
work (Fig.4). Here againthehair fillet shows it is from a victor statue, 
though its provenience from Olympia can not be established. 
1Furtw.-Wolters, Beschr. d. Glyptothek,? 1910, no. 457, pp. 398 f.; Furtw., Mp., p. 291; Mw., 
p. 507; F. W., no. 216; B. B., 8; Bulle, 207 (front and side); Kekulé, 4. Z., XLI, 1883, Pl. XIV, 
3, p. 246; H. Schrader, Jh. oest. arch. Inst., 1911, p. 74; Hauser, R. M., X, 1895, pp. 103 f. 
Kekule, because of its similarity to the 4pollo of the West Gable, derived it from the art of the 
Olympia pediment sculptures; Flasch, Verh. d. 29sten Philologenversamml., Innsbruck, 1874, 
p. 162, and Brunn, Beschr. d. Glypt.®, no. 302, and Sitzb. Muen. Akad., 1892, p. 658, classed it as 
Polykleitan; Bulle calls it Attic-Argive without Polykleitan influence, while Furtwaengler finds it 
Polykleitan-Attic. The latter gives several replicas, two of green and black basalt respectively, 
in the Museo delle Terme, and a marble head in the Museo Chiaramonti, no. 475. Bulle gives 
the height of the Munich head as 0.23 meter. 
*Aibdws; cf. decor, applied to the work of Polykleitos by Quintilian: Jnst. Orat., XII, 9. 7-8; cf. also 
Vitruvius, de Arch., I, 2. 
3Furtw.-Urlichs, Denkm. d. gr. und roem. Skulpt., Hdausgabe,’ 1911, p. 102,n.1. Headds that 
it is das Ideal von Reinheit, Unschuld, liecbenswuerdig edler Groesse, eines der herrlichsten griech- 
ischen Originale, die uns erhalten sind: It is photographed zbid., figs. 30, 31. Inthe Beschr. d. 
Glypt., p. 399, he says it is das edelste und vollendetste Werk, das die Glyptothek besitzt—thr 
kostbarster Schatz, etc. 
4Formerly in the Coll. Tyskiewicz: B. B., 324, (two views); Bulle, 206 (two views); von Mach, 
481 (two views); Mon. Piot, I, 1894, pp. 77 f. (E. Michon) and Pls. X, XI; S. Reinach, Tétes, 
Pl. 72 and p. 58; Kalkmann, Prop. d. Gesichts, p. 27 (vignette); Collignon, II, Frontispiece and 
p. 169; Gardner, Sculpt., Pl. XL; Furtw., Mp., pp. 290-1 and Pl. XIV; Mw., p. 507. The 
best illustration of the head is given by de Ridder, Les Bronzes antiques du Louvre, I, 1913, Pl. I 
(and text p. 8, on no. 4). It is 0.33 meter in height (Bulle). 
5Preface to Furtw., M>., p. xii. 
6So Furtw., /. c.; Bulle, however, sees in it only Attic work and finds it slightly coarser and 
harder than the Munich head described. 
Invent. 5633; Bronzi d’Ercol., I, 73, 74; D. Comparetti e G. de Petra, La Villa Ercolanese 
dei Pisoni, 1883, XI, 1; B. B., 323 (two views); Rayet, II, Pl. 67; Furtw., M/p., p. 291; Mw., 
p. 508; the latter believes that it, like the preceding two heads, is Polykleitan and Attic. 
