ASSIMILATION OF OLYMPIC VICTOR STATUES. 97 
three times at Argos, for which he dedicated a slab to the Dioskouroi, 
which depicted them in relief.!. An inscribed bronze quoit of the 
sixth century B.C. from Kephallenia(?), now in the British Museum, 
was dedicated to the two heroes by Exoidas for a victory (apparently 
in the pentathlon).?, A bronze four-spoked wheel with a dedicatory 
inscription in their honor was found at Argos, probably the remnant of a 
monument erected for a chariot victory.* Doubtless certain victor 
statues were assimilated to them, though we have no direct evidence 
of the fact. Ordinary dead men appeared in the guise of the Dios- 
kouroi on sepulchral reliefs, just as we have seen that in statuary they 
were heroized into statues of Hermes. ‘Thus a grave-relief in honor 
of Pamphilos and Alexandros in Verona shows on the projecting lower 
rim the two Dioskouroi, the figure to the right carrying a lance in the 
right hand and holding the bridle of a horse in the left, while the figure 
to the left holds a lance in the left hand and touches a horse’s head with 
the right.? A votive relief in the British Museum represents two youths 
on horseback, who, despite the absence of the conical cap or pilleus, 
are probably the Dioskouroi.? ‘Their short hair is bound with diadems, 
which shows that the dead men may have been victors. 
Sufficient examples of the process of assimilation have now been 
given to prove that it was not an uncommon device of the ancient 
sculptor and to show the difficulty of distinguishing between types 
of gods and athletes. 
SES, ples B 
see orons., nO. 3207; C. 1. G. G. S., Ill, 1,649; Reo. arch., Ser. 3, XVIII, 1891, PI. 18, 
and pp. 45 f. (Froehner); Wochenschr. f. kl. Phil., VIII, 1891, p. 859; Gardiner, p. 317, fig. 73. 
Froehner reads the name “‘Exotra,” that of a woman victor. 
Seca 43a (p. 173). 
ADisetschke, IV, no. 534. Another relief fiemene’ in the Uffizi shows the upper part of the 
two with horses, each wearing the chlamys and pilleus and carrying spears: Duetschke, III, 446. 
5B. M. Sculpt., I, no. 780; Museum Marbles, II, Pl. 11; cf. a similar relief, no. 781. The relief 
ibid., III, no. 2206, supposedly representing Kastor, has been pronounced a modern forgery 
hv Treu: see F. W., 1006. 
