SECONDARY ATTRIBUTES OF VICTOR STATUES. 165 
relief of a pentathlete just mentioned, about the height of aman. The 
attitude of the diskobolos and doryphoros will be discussed at length 
in the next chapter. 
BoxERSs. 
The statue of a boxer would be sufficiently characterized by thongs, 
which he might carry in his hand, as in the statue of the Rhodian 
Akousilaos at Olympia,! or wound round his forearm, as in the statue of 
a boxer in the Palazzo Albani, Rome,? or on a near-by prop, as on the 
ia beside the Chotseul-Gouffier Apollo in the British Museum 
(PI. ‘ 
WRESTLERS. 
Long ago Scherer tried to show that the aryballos was a wrestler- 
attribute, since oil was so important in wrestling. He interpreted as 
aryballoi the pomegranates mentioned by Pausanias as held in the 
hands of the statues of the wrestlers Milo® and Theognetos® at Olympia, 
assuming that the Periegete mistook oil-flasks for pomegranates 
(povat). But it hardly seems reasonable that such a small utensil, 
which was used by athletes in general, could ever have been regarded 
as a peculiar attribute of the wrestler. A similar attribute may have 
been held in the outstretched hand of the half life-size archaic bronze 
“Apollo” of the Sciarra Palace in Rome,’ and it occurs on other 
statues.® 
Caps FoR BoxERs, PANCRATIASTS, AND WRESTLERS. 
Often the boxer and pancratiast (and even wrestler)? are represented 
as wearing close-fitting caps, made up of thongs of leather or of solid 
10 schol. on Pindar, Ol., VII, Argum., Bceckh, p. 158. He won in Ol. 83 (=448 B.C.): Oxy. 
Pap.; P., VI, 7.1f.; Hyde, 60; Foerster, 252. 
2Matz-Duhn, Ant. Bildw. in Rom, no. 1096; J. H.S., I, 1881, p. 342, fig. 3. Thongs appear on 
both forearms of the Polykleitan statue, copies of which are in Kassel (Furtw., Mp., p. 246, fig. 99; 
Mw., p. 447, fig. 69), and cn a headless one in Lansdowne House (Michaelis, p. 438, no. 3; Clarac, 
851, 2180 A); similarly on the Lysippan boxer by Koblanos found at Sorrento, and now in Naples 
(Fig. 57; Kalkmann, Die Proport. des Gesichts in d. gr. Kunst = 53stes Berl. Winckelmannsprogr., 
1893, Pl. III); on the bronze statue of a boxer from Herculaneum in Naples; and on the delle 
Terme Seated Boxer (Pl. 16); etc. 
3So interpreted, and rightly, by Waldstein (J. H. S., I, 1880, p. 186), and others; Juethner, pp. 
68-9, thinks that the object here represented is a victor fillet, being too short for thongs. 
4P, 26 and n. 2; against him, Reisch, p. 43; Hitz-Bluemn., II, 2, p. 577; etc. Ozil-flasks of 
various kinds—lekythoi, aryballoi, alabastra, olpai—are mentioned repeatedly by Greek writers; 
¢. g. Anxvbos, by Homer, Od., VI, 79; Aristoph., Plutus, 810; &ptBaddos, Aristoph., Equites, 1094; 
Pollux, VII, 166 and X, 63; &4d4Baorpov, Theokr., XV. 114; dA (of leather), Theokr., II, 156; etc. 
SVT, 14.6. 
6VI, 9.1. Theognetos won in the boys’ wrestling match in Ol. 76 (=746 B. C.): Oxy. Pap.; 
Hyde, 83; Foerster, 193 and 193 N. 
7We have already in the present chapter mentioned this “Apollo” in connection with the 
statuette from Piombino (Fig. 19); Studniczka, R. M., II, 1887, pp. 99-100, believed that it 
represented a victor. See supra, p. 119. 
8E. g., on the bronze statuette from Naxos, now in Berlin: see supra, p. 119 and n. 5. 
®Boy wrestlers especially wore caps in the palestra, but not at the games; we see them on the 
wrestler group in the palestra scene on the r.-f. kylix in Munich (no. 795) already mentioned. 
