220 VICTOR STATUES REPRESENTED IN MOTION. 
position is the beginning of the forward swing, when the body 1s straight- 
ened.! As the diskos swings downwards and the left foot advances, 
the sixth position is reached.? Lastly the nght foot is advanced after 
the diskos is cast.’ 
A victor statue of a diskobolos 
might conceivably have taken 
any one of these seven positions. 
We have already considered the 
two statues, the Standing Disko- 
bolos of Naukydes in the Vati- 
can (Pl. 6) and that of Myron 
(Pls.:22; 23, and Figs. 34, 35), 
the two most important works 
in sculpture to illustrate posi- 
tions of the throw. ‘The statue 
of Naukydes is not taking aim, 
as Juethner maintains, nor look- 
ing down the course. The head 
is inclined a little to the night and 
downwards, and the eyes are di- 
rected to the ground only a short 
distance away, thus measuring 
the distance the left foot is to 
be advanced, when the diskos 
is finally swung forward for the 
cast, which takes place off the 
left and not off the right foot. 
The right forearm is_ rightly 
restored, as it thus appears 
on bronzes which imitate this 
stance. A different stance is 
shown in a fine bronze statuette 
in the Metropolitan Museum 
(Fig. 46),° dating from about 

Fic. 46.—Bronze Statuette of a Disko- 
bolos. Metropolitan Museum, New 
York. 
1F. g.,on a Panathenaic amphora in Naples: J. H. S., XXVII, 1907, p. 32, fig. 20; Juethner, fig. 
31; Gardiner, p. 333, fig. 87; on a b.-f. hydria in the British Museum: B. M. Vases, E164; J. H.S., 
l.'c., p: 32; fig. 21; Gardiner, p. 334, fig. 88. 
7E. g., on ar.-f. kylix in Boulogne: J. H. S., 1. c., p. 34, fig. 23; Gardiner, p. 335, fig. 89; Hop- 
pin, Hbk. Aiticr.-f. Vases, I, p. 370, no. 11; cf. Beazley, Attic r.-f. Vases in Amer. Mus., 1918, no. 19 
(=ascribed to Euergides). 
3F. g., on the kylix just mentioned (the figure to the right). 
4F. g., the archaic Pourtalés bronze: Panofka, Cabinet Pourtalés, Pl. XIII, 3; Reinach, Rép., II, 
2, 545, 3; cf. also another in the Antiquarium in Berlin: Jnventar, no. 8570; A. A., 1904, p. 36, 
n.7 and fig.on p.35. Thelatter is 0.10 meter high. 
®'Mus. Bull., 111, Feb., 1908, pp. 31-36; Richter. Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Bronzes, no. 78, 
p. 49 (three views); Cat. Class. Coll., pp. 89-90, figs. 52 and 53 (side views); Gardiner, p. 329, 
fig. 83. It is 9.25 inches tall. 
