ASSIMILATION OF OLYMPIC VICTOR STATUES. 89 
athletics. As with Hermes, it is often difficult to distinguish between 
statues of Apollo and those of victors assimilated to his type. A 
good instance of this doubt is afforded by the long and indecisive 
discussion of the monument represented by several replicas, especially 
by the Choiseul-Gouffier statue in the British Museum (PI. 7A), and 
the so-called A >pollo-on-the-Omphalos (Pl. 7B) found in 1862 in the 
ruins of the theatre of Dionysos at Athens, and now in the National 
Museum there.1. The bronze original of these marble copies must 
have been famous, to judge from the number of replicas of it. It has 
been ascribed to many different artists—to Kalamis, Pythagoras, 
Alkamenes, Pasiteles,” to one on more, to anotheronless probability. As 
A. H. Smith has pointed out, the krobylos treatment of the hair almost 
certainly indicates an Attic sculptor of the first half of the fifth cen- 
tury B.C. But here again the main interest in these copies is to deter- 
mine whether the original represented Apollo or an athlete. The 
connection between the Athens replica and the omphalos found with 
it is all but disproved’ and can not be used as evidence that the 
statue represents the god. However, the original has been called an 
Apollo because of the presence of a quiver on certain of the copies. 
Thus, while we have a tree-trunk beside the Choiseul-Gouffier example, 
we have a quiver on the copy in the Palazzo Vorloniain Rome,‘ and ona 
similar statue in the Fridericianum in Kassel,® and both tree and quiver 
on the fragment of a leg from the Palatine nowinthe Museo delle Terme.® 
The Ventnor head in the British Museum’ has long locks suited to 
Apollo, and the head from Kyrene there® was actually found in a 
temple of Apollo. It has. also been pointed out that the head of 
a similar figure, undoubtedly an Apollo, appears on a relief in the 
Capitoline Museum,’ and a similar figure is found on a red-figured 
1The Choiseul-Gouffier statue: B. M. Sculpt., I, no. 209; Marbles and Bronzes, Pl. III; Speci- 
mens, II, Pl. V; Museum Marbles, XI, Pl. 32; F. W., no. 221; J. H. S., I, 1881, Pl. IV, and pp. 
178 f., and cf., II, 1882, pp. 332 f.(Waldstein); von Mach, Pl. 67; Collignon, I, p. 403, fig. 208; 
Clarac, III, 482, 931 H, and p. 213: Reinach, Rép., II, 1, 85, 10; Conze, Beitr. zur Gesch. d. gr. 
Pl.2, 1869, Pl. VI; Springer-Michaelis, p. 234, fig. 429. The height of the statue is 5 feet, 10.5 
inches (B. M. Sculpt.). The Apollo-on-the-Omphalos: Kabbadias, 45; Stais, Marbres et Bronzes, 
pp. 23-24 and fig.; J. H. S., I, Pl. V, fig. 3; Collignon, I, p. 405, fig. 209; B. B., 42; von Mach, 
66; F. W., 219; Reinach, Ré., II, 1, 85, 7; Conze, op. cit., Pls. III-V, and text, pp. 13 f.; Murray, 
I, Pl. VIII, opp. p. 234 (both statues); torso in Munich, Arndt-Amelung, Linzelauf., nos. 849-50; 
for list of other copies, see 4. M., IX, 1884, pp. 239-40. 
2Cf. B. M. Sculpt., I, no. 209 (A. H. Smith). 
3See Waldstein, p. 180; F. W., no. 219; 4. M., IX, 1884, p. 248. 
4Reinach, Rép., II, 1, 85, 9; M. D., I, p. 47, no. 179; cf. F. W., 219. Overbeck, Griech. 
Kunstmythol., III, Apollon, p. 162, fig. 9. 
54. M., I, 1876, Pl. X, and pp. 178 f. (Kekulé); Bulle, 105 (Left) and p. 208, fig. 47. 
6Published in J. H. S., XXVI, 1906, pp. 278-80 (Dickins); here, on p. 279, we have the frag- 
ment photographed with the lower parts of the Choiseul-Gouffier and Omphalos copies on either 
side; Dickins says that with the possible exception of the Athens statue this fragment shows 
the best workmanship of all the copies. Helbig, Fuehrer, no. 1268. 
7B. M. Sculpt., I, no. 211; it shows the krobylos best. 8B. M. Sculpt., I, no. 210. 
*Braun, Vorschule d. a envihol Pl. V, (quoted by A. H. Smith). 
