80 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF VICTOR STATUES AT OLYMPIA. . 
The statue discovered in the ruins of Hadrian’s villa in 1742 and now 
in the Capitoline Museum,! which represents an ephebe nude, except 
for a chlamys thrown around the middle of his body, standing in an 
easy attitude with his left foot resting upon a rock and bending for- 
ward with the right arm extended in a gesture, was formerly looked 
upon as a resting pancratiast. 
Because of its general likeness to 
Praxitelean figures—the head 1s 
especially like the Olympia Her- 
mes—Furtwaengler interpreted 
the figure as that of Hermes Lo- 
gios or Agoraios, the god of elo- 
quence, and assigned it to an 
artist near to Praxiteles. How- 
ever, it is probably nothing else 
than an idealized portrait of the 
age of Hadrian or the Antonines, 
and represents an ephebe, prob- 
ably a victor, assimilated to the 
type of Hermes.’ 
Another example of assimila- 
tion may be the much-discussed 
bronze statue in the National 
Museum at Athens, which was 
accidentally discovered in 1901, 
along with the rest of a cargo 
of sculptures which had been 
wrecked off the island of Anti- 
kythera as it was on its way to 
Rome about the beginning of POE RE | 
the first century B.C. (Fig. 7).? Fico. 7.—Bronze Statue of a Youth, 
This statue, the best preserved found in the Sea off Antikythera. 
of the cargo, is a little over life- National Museum, Athens. 
1Stuart Jones, Cat. Mus. Capitol., p. 288, no. 21 and Pl. 71; Helbig, Fuehrer, I, no. 858; Guide, 
509; B. B., 387; Furtw., Mp., p. 303 and n. 7; Mw., p. 525 and n. 1; Clarac, II, 859, 2170; Reinach, 
Rép., I, 525, 1; Lange, Motiv des aufgestuetzten Fusses, 1879, pp. 13 f. Helbig speaks of a 
replica in Paris, but confounds it with the type of the so-called Sandalbinder of the Louvre 
(Fig. 8). The Capitoline statue is 1.845 meters in height (Stuart Jones). 
*The motive of the ‘‘aufgestuetztes Bein” is more likely Lysippan than Skopaic, as Furtwaeng 
ler wrongly assumed. 
8Svoronos, Textbd., I, pp. 18 f. (with bibliography of all the objects down to 1903, on p. 15, 
n. 1.); Tafelbd., I, Pls. I and II (front and back); Stais, Marbres et Bronzes, pp. 302-304 and 
fig.; Bulle, 61; von Mach, 290; J. H. S., XXIII, 1903, Pls. VIII (head), 1X (body, three views); 
H. B. Walters, Art of the Greeks, Pl. XVI; Gardner, Sculpt., Pl. LX XVIII; for bibliographical 
notice and discussion, see 4. J. A., V, 1901, p. 465, and VII, 1903, pp. 464-5; Springer-Mich- 
aelis, p. 297, fig. 531; the best account of the statue in English is by Dr. A. S. Cooley, in Records 
of the Past, II, 1903, pp. 207-13 (with two illustrations). It is 1.94 meters in height, 7. ¢., 
slightly over life-size (Svoronos). 

