230 VICTOR STATUES REPRESENTED IN MOTION. 
opponent’s leg, which is an illustration of tripping. On a r.-f. kylix 
in the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia (Fig. 50a).? 
we see a body hold preparatory to the heave; here to the right are two 
youths wrestling, and to the left stands a bearded trainer with his rod. 
One wrestler has already lost his balance and is supporting himself 
with both hands on the ground, while the other with his left hand holds 
the other’s right arm down, and with his right prepares to throw him 
over his head. 
From vase-paintings, then, we can see what positions the sculptor 
might have used in representing groups of wrestlers. For the posi- 

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Fic. 49.—Wrestling Scenes. From Obverse of an Amphora, by Andokides. 
Museum of Berlin. 
tions of individual figures of wrestlers, we-are guided by several 
statues and small bronzes. ‘The preliminary position (ovcTaots) 
seems to be best represented by the bronze statues of wrestling 
boys discovered at Herculaneum in 1754, and now in the Museum of 
Naples (Fig. 51).2> These figures have been variously interpreted as 


INo. 2444; Trans. Univ. Penn. Mus., II, 1906-1907, Pl. XX XV, a, and pp. 140 f. (W. N. 
Bates); J. D. Beazley, Attic r.-f. Vases in Amer. Museums, 1918, p. 111 (Lysis, Laches, and 
Lykos group); Gardiner, p. 392, fig. 122. 
*Invent., 5626-5627; B. B., 354; Comparetti e de Petra, La Villa Ercolanese dei Pisoni, 1883, 
Pl. XV, 2 and 3; Bulle, 91; Gardiner, p. 378, fig. 110 (=one statue); von Mach, 289; Reinach, 
Rép., I, 2, 541 (=one statue); etc. They appear to be boys of about sixteen, and consequently 
may represent contestants in the ran maidwv. ‘The statues are 1.18 meters high (Bulle). The 
advanced foot in nc. 5626 is wrongly restored. 
