140 VICTOR STATUES REPRESENTED AT REST. 
from Herculaneum (Fig. 25)! so strongly resembles in its forms the 
type under discussion—which Furtwaengler has called the “Vatican 
athlete standing at rest’’—and corresponds with it so closely in 
its measurements, that it might be regarded as a copy of the same . 
original, if certain differences, not due to the copyist, did not rather 

Fic. 25.—Bronze Head of an Athlete, from Her- 
culaneum. Museum of Naples. 
show that it comes from a closely allied work. ‘This head shows 
an intense melancholy, which has been explained by Furtwaengler 
as due to the lack of skill on the part of the copyist, who fashioned 
it slightly askew. Amelung very properly explains the absence of 
the motive of libation-pouring in athletic art as merely a lacuna in 
our sources.’ If the original of these copies and variations represented 
1Invent., 5610; Bronzi d’Ercolano, I, Pls. 53-54, p. 187; Comparetti e de Petra, Villa Ercol- 
ee det Pisoni, 7, 4; Furtw., Mp., p. 284, figs. 121 a, b; Mw., pp. 496-7, figs. 87-8; B. B., 339 
(left). 
*Mp., p. 283; Mw., p. 495. 
3Amelung, Vat., II, p. 416. 
