GENERAL MOTIVES OF STATUES AT REST. 143 
aclub. We must, however, leave the final solution of the motive of the 
Idolino and kindred works open, although inclining to the belief that 
they represent a victor. 
A statue in Athens, which was found in 1888 in the Roman ruins at 
the Olympieion, may represent a boy victor pouring a libation (Fig. 
26)... It is a poor Roman copy, dry and life- 
less, of a bronze original of the middle of the 
hfth century B.C.” In this statue Mayer has 
seen the motive, and probably the copy, of the 
Splanchnoptes (Roaster of Entrails) by the 
sculptor Styphax (or Styppax) of Cyprus, 
which, according to Pliny,? represented Peri- 
kles’ slave “roasting entrails and blowing hard 
on the fire, to kindle it, till his cheeks swell.”’ 
He thinks that the position of the broken 
arms and a comparison of the figure with simi- 
lar ones on vases make the identification possi- 
ble. Von Salis concurs in his restoration and 
interpretation and publishes a small statuette 
in Athens from Dodona,* which has a similar 
pose, and holds a three-pronged fork in the 
left hand, which he believes should be restored 
in the statue. Although statue and statuette 
have much in common (e. g., the position of 
the breast and shoulders, the treatment of the 
hair, etc.), which shows that both may be copies 
of one original, the conception of the two is 
somewhat different. ‘The statue from Athens 
represents a boy standing busily engaged at 
the altar; the statuette represents one stand- 
ing at rest merely looking on, the fork not Hanon math leet) 
being held in position for use.? In any case = National Museum, 
the face of the Athens statue can not corre- Athens. 
spond with Pliny’s description—ignemque orts 

Fic. 26.— Marble Sta- 
1Kabbadias, 248; Stais, op. cit., p. 86; Arndt-Bruckmann, Einzelaufnahmen, 627 and 628 
(head alone); noticed in 4. 4., 1889, p. 147, and 4. M., XIII, 1888, p. 231 (Wolters); zdid., 
XXXI, 1906, pp. 352 f. (von Salis); /d., VIII, 1893, pp. 224 f., fig. 3 (restored), and Pl. IV 
(Mayer). It may be one of the statues seen by Pausanias in the temenos: I, 18.6. It is 
1.50 meters high without the plinth (Mayer). 
2Furtwaengler, Mw., p. 378, n. 3 (cf. Mp., p. 196, n. 1), p. 685, n. 2 and p. 737; he ascribes 
it to Kalamis or his school. 
3H. N., XXXIV, 81: statue also mentioned, idid., X XII, 44. 
4In the National Museum, no. 12; Stais, Marbres et Bronzes, pp. 362, 363 and fig. (0.09 meter 
high); three photographs, 4. M., XXXI, Pl. XXII; a poor photograph in Carapanos, Dodone 
et ses ruines, 1878, Pl. XIV, 3, and p. 186. 
5In the statuette it is bent, but its original horizontal position is indicated by the position 
of the hand. 
