254 VICTOR STATUES REPRESENTED IN MOTION. 
century B.C., even if we admit with Richardson that “‘for our peace of 
mind this statue might well have been sunk in the sea.’”! 
Long ago, I referred the life-size bronze portrait-like head of a boxer or 
pancratiast found at Olympia, now in the Athens Museum (Figs. 61A 
and B),? to one of two statues of the pancratiast Kapros mentioned 
by Pausanias.* The remnant ofa wild-olive crown in the hair proves 
that it comes from the statue of an Olympic victor. Its bruised ap- 
pearance may, however, betoken the punishment administered by the 
gloves of a boxer rather than by the bare fists of a pancratiast. That 

A B 
F1c.61.—Bronze Head of Boxer (?), from Olympia. National Museum, Athens. 
Greek sculpture was not always ideal we have seen from the descrip- 
tion of the Seated Boxer of the Museo delle Terme (Pl. 16 and Fig.27). 
This peculiarly life-like head is another example of the same realism; it 
would be hard to name a more brutal and repellent piece from the whole 
range of Greek sculpture. The profession of this bruiser is evident in 
every feature, for the sculptor has betrayed it by the swollen ears, flat 
nose, thick neck, swollen cheeks, projecting under lip, frowning brows, 
and unkempt hair and beard. All these traits—especially the treat- 
ment of the eyes—give to it the sullen gloomy look so characteristic 
of boxers and pancratiasts.4 The man appears to be awaiting the attack, 

IP, 234, *Bronz. v. Ol., Tafelbd., Pl. II, 2a and 2; Textbd., pp. 10-11; F. W., 323. 
3De olymp. Stat., p. 56. 
*On the “jinsterer Blick” of this class of victor monuments, see Furtw., Mp., p. 173; Mw., p. 348; 
and Bronsz. v. Ol., Text, pp. 10-11. 
