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floating in the air and extending a wreath (now wanting) towards the 
head of the charioteer, who is draped with a tunic girdled at the waist, 
as he mounts the car. If the charioteer in this relief is a female (which 
is doubtful), it may be the personification of the city to which the 
winner belongs.!. On a votive relief in Athens a horse is represented 
as being crowned by Nike.” Ona relief in Madrid Nike is represented as 
driving a chariot. A quadriga with a female figure, apparently Nike, 
appears on a relief dedicated to Hermes and the Nymphs, which was 
found in Phaleron.4— Doubtless some of the chariot-groups at Olympia 
represented movement—the start, the course, or the end of the race— 
as do these and similar reliefs.» We should add that the figure of Nike 
was not confined to equestrian monuments. On the Ficoroni cista in 
Rome is represented the boxing match between Polydeukes and Amykos 
among the Bebrykes. Inthe centre we see Amykos hanged to a tree by 
the hands, while to the right stands Athena, and above her Nike is 
flying with a crown and fillet of victory for Polydeukes.°® 
REMAINS OF CHARIOT-GROUPS. 
From this discussion of the literary evidence about the monuments 
of chariot victors at Olympia and elsewhere, we shall turn to a brief 
consideration of certain existing works of sculpture, reliefs and statues, 
which will serve to illustrate the manner in which the sculptor repre- 
sented this class of victor monuments. 
The motive of representing a figure in the act of mounting a chariot 
is old. Amphiaraos was thus represented on the chest of Kypselos at 
Olympia’ and appears in a similar pose on the b.-f. Corinthian vase from 
Cerveteri, now in Berlin, which we have already mentioned. Among 
reliefs we hall first discuss the Parian (?) marble one found in 1822 near 
the Propylaia at Athens and now in the Akropolis Museum (Fig. 63).° 
Here we see represented a robed figure stepping into a chariot, holding 
the reins in the extended hands. This Attic work, perhaps dating from 
1B. M. Sculpt., 1, 814; Museum Marbles, X, Pl. XX XVIII, fig. 2. A. H. Smith (oP. ciz., no. 814; 
cf. Guide to Greco-Roman Sculpt., I, no. 176) also mentions another similar votive tablet in the 
British Museum. It is mounted on a pilaster and represents the visit of ee to Ikarios. 
Such tablets seem to have been commonly dedicated by agonistic victors. 
*Schoene, Griech. Reliefs, 1872, Pl. XVIII, fig. 80; F. W., 1142; von Sybel, Kat. d. Skulpt. zu 
Athen, 1881, no. 7014. Here only the arms and wings of Nike are fel 
3K. Prehner. Die antiken Bildw. in Madrid, 1862, 241, 559; Annali, XXXIV, 1862, Pl. G., and 
p. 103; Reisch, p. 51. 
4Arch. Eph., 1893, pp. 128 f. (Kabbadias) and PI. IX; Rouse, p. 177. 
5Cf. Reisch, pp. 49-50; Rouse, p. 176. 6Helbig, Fuehrer, II, 1752; Guide, I, 437. 
RE eva Le 8F razer, III, p. 609, fig. 77; etc. See supra, p. 13 andn. 1. 
9We have already discussed the style and date of this relief in Ch. III, pp. 128-9. Forthe relief, 
see Dickins, no. 1342 and illustration on p. 275; von Sybel, Kat. d. Skulpt. zu Athen, no. 5039; 
Baum., I, p. 342, fig. 359; Studniczka, Jb., XI, 1896, p. 265, fig. 7; Perrot-Chipiez, VIII, p. 664, 
fig. 342; B. B., 21; von Mach, 56; Collignon, I, pp. 378 f. and fig. 194; Overbeck, I, p. 203 and 
fig. 47; Le Bas, Voyage archeol. (Reinach’s ed.), pp. 50-51 and Pl. I; F. W., 97; cast in British 
Museum, B. M. Sculpt., 1, no. 155. A small piece of the adjacent slab to the right (found on the 
eastern slope of the Akropolis in 1859-1860), fitting the main block exactly, shows two horses’ 
tails and one hind leg and proves that the chariot was represented at rest. 
