164 VICTOR STATUES REPRESENTED AT .REST. 
drome, because of its marked resemblance in attitude to the Tuebingen 
bronze to be discussed in the next chapter (Fig. 42), and because of 
the helmet on its head.1 
PENTATHLETES. 
Pentathletes were represented by attributes taken from three of the 
five contests—jumping, and throwing the diskos and the javelin. All 
these attributes appear in gymnasium scenes pictured on red-figured 
vases. Thus akylix of the severe style in Munich? gives us a general 
picture of the exercises of the gymnasium. On the walls hang diskoi in 
slings, strigils, leaping-weights, oil-flasks, sponges, andjavelins. Archaic 
leaping-weights (a&\rTnpes) appeared in the hands of the statue of the 
Elean Hysmon at Olympia by the Sikyonian sculptor Kleon.’ Simi- 
larly, a figure of Contest (’Aywv) in the group set up there by Mikythos 
had weights. The offering of the people of Mende at Olympia very 
nearly deceived Pausanias into thinking it the statue of a pentath- 
lete, because of its ancient halteres.» ‘This shows that these weights 
formed a regular attribute of pentathlete statues there. A relief from 
Sparta® represents an athlete leaning on his spear and holding a pair 
of leaping-weights in his right hand. ‘There is a bronze statue of such 
a victor in the Berlin Antiquarium.’? Halteres hang on a tree-trunk 
to the right of the statue of an athlete in the Pitti palace in Florence. 
The breast of a marble torso, less than life-size, of a boy statue found 
at Olympia, shows that the hands were stretched forward, and very 
possibly the objects which they held were leaping-weights.° 
We have no direct literary reference to a victor statue at Olympia of a 
pentathlete with the attributes of the diskos or javelin. That they 
existed there, however, seems probable enough. Such a work as the 
Diskobolos of Myron, which displays the youthful victor in its every 
line, other statues, statuettes, reliefs, and vase-paintings, show us how 
the artist represented the different steps in the casting of the quoit. 
Similarly, the famous Doryphoros of Polykleitos, copies of which 
have been identified in many museums (PI. 4 and Fig. 48), will give 
us an idea how a javelin thrower might have been represented at rest. 
The akontion or victor’s casting-spear, was, as we see from the Spartan 
‘Hauser, /b., II, 1887, p. 101, n. 24, points out its resemblance to the Tuebingen bronze, but 
because of the tree-trunk does not regard it as a representation of a hoplitodrome. Furt- 
waengler, /. c., regards the helmet as belonging to the head, while others believe it alien thereto. 
2No. 795; A. Z., XXXVI, 1878, Pl. XI and pp. 58-71; Gardiner, p. 105, fig. 17; cf. another in 
Copenhagen: Gerhard, IV, Pl. CCLXXXI. 
8P., VI, 3.10; he won the pentathlon some time between Ols. 94 and 103 (= 404 and 368 B. C.): 
Hyde, 31; Foerster, 347. 
sd AIT, BV 27:12. 64. Z., XLI, 1883, Pl. XIII, 2 and pp. 227-8 (Milchhoefer). 
"Inventar, no. 6306; mentioned by L. Gurlitt in 4. M., VI, 1881, p. 158. 
®Duetschke, II, no. 22; a very similar statue, no. 25, has no halteres; both are poor Roman copies. 
*Bildw.0..Olk:,*p) 217; Lafelbd:, PIS LVIe 3: 
