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marvelous, Furtwaengler has ascribed the statuette to the circle of 
Polykleitos’ pupils. ‘The position of the: right hand, which has the 
thumbs drawn in, corresponds with that of the Jdolino (Pl. 14), which 
we are to discuss, and can best be explained by assuming that it 
similarly held a kylix; the left hand carried a staff-like attribute. 
The head is bent and looks to the right. 
Furtwaengler believed that, inasmuch 
as the act of pouring a libation does not 
occur in art or literature as an athletic 
motive, the statuette represented a hero 
or god. Many Roman marble copies 
show the same motive and preserve 
to us a Polykleitan work which cor- 
responds in all essentials with the 
Louvre statuette... We mention two, 
the only ones of the type in which the 
heads are on the trunks, one in the 
Galleria delle Statue of the Vatican,? 
the other in the Farnsworth Museum 
at Wellesley College (PI. 13).2 These 
copies represent a youth standing with 
both feet flat upon the ground, the 
weight of the body resting upon the 
right one, while the left is turned a 
little to the side. He is looking down-_ 
wards to the right. Doubtless we 
should restore these copies after the 
Paris bronze, with a kylix in the right 
hand. The palm-branch in a similar 
statue, to be mentioned further on, 
shows that in all probability the origi- Fy. 24.—Bronze Statuette of an 
nal statue was that of an athlete; and Athlete. Louvre, Paris. 
that he was a famous athlete is shown 
by the number of copies of the torso and head.4 A bronze head 

1See list, Furtw., Mp., pp. 281 f.; Mw., p. 493; a completer one by Lippold, /b., XXIII, 
1908, pp. 203-8. 
2Amelung, Vat., II, pp. 414 f., no. 251, and Pl. 46; Furtw., W>., p. 281, fig. 120; Mw., p. 494, 
fig. 86; Clarac, 856, 2168. As the head and torso are of different marbles, we really have parts 
of two copies of the same original. In reconstructing the statue, another copy in the Galleria 
delle Statue is better: Amelung, Vat., II, pp. 583 f., no. 392 and Pl. 56;it has a head of Septimius 
Severus upon it; the position of its feet is almost exactly that of the statue of Xenokles men- 
tioned. 
3Publ. by Miss A. Walton, 4. J. 4., XXII, 1918, pp. 44f., Pls. I, IH, and figs. 1-5 in 
the text; Matz-Duhn, Ant. Bildw. in Rom, no. 1000; von Duhn doubts whether the head 
belongs to the trunk. The statue was acquired by Wellesley College in 1905 from a 
Roman dealer. 
4Copies of the head-type are listed by Furtw., Mp., p. 282; Mw., pp. 494-5. 
