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The best of these copies is in the collection of Lord Leconfield at Pet- 
worth House, Sussex.!. We should add a fifth, a Roman copy of the 
head, in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (Pl. 15).2. In these 
copies the ears are not swollen, and a certain refinement and gentleness 
show that the original was not from the statue of a boxer or pancratiast, 
but from that of another type of athlete, perhaps a pentathlete. 
Since Pliny mentions the statue of a Doryphoros by Kresilas, and be- 
cause of its supposed Kresilzan style, Furtwaengler, albeit on slender 
grounds, has attempted to identify the original of these heads with 
that work.4 The expression is certainly one of complete repose. On 
the crown of the head, and on the left side over the fillet, is a rectangular 
broken surface,® apparently the remnant of a support for the right arm, 
which, as Conze thought, proves that the athlete stood with one arm 
resting on the head, the hand hanging over the left side. Furtwaengler 
admitted that such an attitude might be that of an apoxyomenos,° 
but pointed out that the expression of the face in all the copies seems 
too tranquil for such an interpretation. Since the victor was in repose 
and the left arm required a slight support, he believed that this support 
might have been an akontion. He therefore reconstructed the original 
statue as that of a resting pentathlete, and assigned it to the great 
Cretan contemporary of Pheidias, who worked in Athens.?. The num- 
ber of replicas at least shows that the original was a famous work. 
Perhaps our best example of the motive of aseated victor resting after 
the contest is the bronze statue of a boxer found in Rome in 1884 and 
now in the Museo delle Terme there (Pl. 16 and Fig. 27).8 This is a 
1Michaelis, p. 609, no. 24; Specimens, I, Pl. 30; Mp., p. 163, fig. 65 (front), p. 162, fig. 64 
(profile), from an old cast from the Mengs Collection in Dresden; Mw., Pl. XVI; other rep- 
licas, Mp., p. 161, n. 3. 2Cat. Class. Coll., pp. 214-17, and fig. 130 on p. 215. 
3H. N.. XXXIV, 76: Ctesilaus doryphoron et Amazonem volneratam (fecit). Bergk long ago 
proposed to alter this name to Kresilas (Zeitschr. fuer Alterthumswissensch., 1845, p- 962), 
and was followed by Brunn (I, p: 261)—an emendation accepted by most recent investigators. 
The argument derived from the Amazon of Kresilas, mentioned by Pliny, XXXIV, 53, and 
apparently repeated in the present passage, is strong. Jex-Blake, however, finds the name 
Ktesilaos a good Greek formation, though uncommon: see his note on p. 62. 
4M>»., pp. 161 f.; Mw., pp. 332 f. ; 
5It is plainly visible in the example from Petworth House, and in the poor one lately in the 
possession of the Roman dealer Abbati: B. B., 84 (from cast); Bull. del. Inst., 1867, p. 33 (Hel- 
big); Mon. d. I., IX, 1869-73, Pl. XXXVI; Annali, XLII, 1871, pp. 279 f. (Conze); it is also 
visible in the New York copy. 
6As on an Attic fifth-century B. C. grave-relief from the Peirzus: Stais, Marbres et Bronzes, 
p. 157 (who gives the height as 0.45 meter and the breadth as 0.32 meter); von Sybel, Kat. d. 
Skulpt. 2u Athen, 1881, no. 171; Annali, XXXIV, 1862, p. 212; Conze, Die Aitischen Grabreliefs, 
no. 929 and Pl. CLXXX; F. W., 1017; for similar reliefs, see Annali, 1862, Pl. M. , 
7Michaelis wrongly dated the original in the fourth century B. C.; Brunn first recognized 
its fifth-century character: Annali, XLVII, 1875, p. 31 (apud Leop. Julius). 
8 Ant. Denkm., I, 1, 1886, Pl. IV; B. B., no. 248; Bulle, 167; Collignon, II, p. 492, fig. 256; 
Helbig, Fuehrer, II, 1350; Guide, 1051; Hekler, Greek and Roman Portraits, 1912, pp. 85-86; 
Gardner, Hbk., p. 536, fig. 146; Amelung, Museums and Ruins of Rome, I, fig. 156; Not. Scav.; 
1885, p. 223; Gaz. B.-A., XX XIII, Pér. 2, I, 1886, fig. on p. 427; Springer-Michaelis, p. 401, 
fig. 743; Reinach, Rép., II, 2, 550, 10; Reinach classes it as an athlete or Herakles. It is 
1.28 meters high (Bulle). 
