104 VICTOR STATUES REPRESENTED AT REST. 
duced into Bceotia by that time. In the example from Volomandra 
in Attica,! we see affinity to the examples from Thera and Melos, but 
Attic softness in the carving of the shoulders and in the proportions. 
In the Apollo of Tenea (Pl. 8A), “by far the most beautiful preserved 
statue of archaic sculpture,’’? a statue most carefully worked, we see a 

Fic. 13.—Statues of so-called Apollos. from Mount Ptoion. 
National Museum, Athens. 
Peloponnesian example of the beginning of the sixth or even of the end 
of the seventh century B.C. Here the sculptor has shown great care 
in executing details and in the proportions. The eyes are not flat, but 
convex, and are wide open as in most of the earlier examples. The 
downward flow of the lines of the statue is striking, which is caused 
by the sloping shoulders and the elongated triangular-shaped abdomen. 
The slimness of the figure, with the contour of bones and muscles, is 
remarkable at so early a date. The fashioning of the knees is detailed. 
When we contrast this tall, slim, agile statue with the massively 
square-built Argive type found at Delphi (Pl. 8B), we find it reason- 
2°“ “OOOO Me lll 
‘In the Athens Museum; it dates from the middle of the sixth century B. C.: Stais, Mar- 
bres et Bronzes, p. 11, no. 1906 and fig. (1.78 m. high); Deonna, p. 133, no. 5; Perrot-Chipiez, 
VIII, figs. 189-190; Kabbadias, Arch. Eph., 1902, pp. 43 f. and Pls. 3 and 4; Bulle, no. 37 
(left), who gives its height as 1.79 meters. 
*See Furtw.-Urlichs, Denkm., text to Pl. I, p. 4: 
