198 VICTOR STATUES REPRESENTED IN MOTION. 
Perhaps our best representation of runners is to be seen in the two 
marble statues discovered near Velletri and now in the Palazzo dei 
Conservatori, Rome (Figs. 38 and 39).!. The hair and the sharp edges 
of the modeling of the flesh, as well as the tree-stumps near the right 
legs, show that these statues are copies of bronze originals. ‘They were 

Fic. 38.—Statue of a Runner. Pa- Fic. 39.—Statue of a Runner. Pa- 
lazzo dei Conservatori, Rome. lazzo dei Conservatori, Rome. 
at first interpreted as runners, but later were regarded as forming a 
group of wrestlers, who were standing opposite one another and holding 
their hands out for an opening. However, there is nothing in the pose 
or the expression of these statues to show the tension of two oppo- 
nents. Moreover, they certainly never formed a group, for stylistic 
differences reveal that they are copies of statues by different artists 
who lived at different times; one belongs to the severe style of the last 
quarter of the fifth century,” while the other, with its softer forms, 
smaller head, and deeper-set eyes, is a product of the fourth century B. C.® 
1Helbig, Fuehrer, I, nos. 913, 914; Guide, 573, 574; B. Com. Rom., IV, 1876, Pls. LX-X, pp. 68 f.; 
B. B., 353 (right and left); Reinach, Rép., II, 2, 540, 4, and for the torso, see II, 2, 541, 3 (=B. 
Com. Rom., Pl. XI). 
*Helbig, 914. ’Helbig, 913. 
