oD, VICTOR STATUES REPRESENTED IN MOTION. 
and their heads are close together, though the lunge in each case is much 
exaggerated. Similar are the two groups on the rim of a bronze bowl 
in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.!. A third-century B. C. Etruscan 
cista in the Metropolitan Museum,” has a handle on the lid in the form 
of two nude wrestlers, whose bodies are inclined toward one another, 
their heads in contact, and their arms locked behind their heads. 
Groups of wrestlers in similar attitudes commonly appear as cista han- 
dles. A portion of a bronze group of wrestlers was dredged from the 

Fic. 51.—Bronze Statues of Wrestlers. Museum of Naples. 
sea near Kythera and is now in Athens.? The heave is represented 
by a metope from the Theseion representing the wrestling bout 
between Theseus and Kerkyon.> A later moment is seen in a bronze 
wrestling-group in Paris. The cross-buttocks is illustrated by a small 
Hellenistic bronze group in the collection of James Loeb in Munich, of 
1Bulle, p. 179, fig. 40; Reinach, Rép., IV, 318, 2; for other similar ones, cf. ibid., II, 2, 539, 2 
(cover of a cista from Praeneste), 5 (in the Louvre), 6 (in Vienna= E. von Sacken, Die ant. Bronz. 
d.k. k. Muenz-und Ant.-Cabinetes in Wien, 1871, Pl. XLV, 7), and III, 155, 3 (in Forman Col- 
lection, London). 
*Richter, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Bronzes, no. 124 and fig. on p. 79; it is 4.5 inches high. 
3K. g., Walters, B. M. Bronzes, no. 639; Mon. d. I., X, 1877, Pl. XLV, 1a.; Babelon et Blan- 
chet, Cat. des bronzes antiques de la Bibl. Nationale, 1895, no. 935. 
4TIavaéjvara, II, Plates. 
5Gardiner, p. 395, fig. 126; J. H. S., XXV, p. 286, fig. 23; Gardner, Hbdk., p. 328, fig. 81. 
SGardiner, p. 396, fig. 127; Clarac, 802, 2014. 
