THE HEAD FROM OLYMPIA. 293 
On the basis of the 4g7as, on the other hand, we may regard as Lysippan 
the statue of an athlete in Copenhagen,! and perhaps the Parian mar- 
ble statue of an athlete from the Palazzo Farnese now in the British 
Museum,? with copies in Paris and Rome.’ This latter statue Furt- 
waengler ascribed to the school of Kalamis of the fifth century B. C., 
on account of the similarity of its style to that of the 4pollo-on-the- 
Omphalos (Fig. 7B) and of its motive to that of the Lansdowne Herakles 
(Fig. 71 and Pl. 30); however, A. H. Smith finds it very similar to the 
Agias, and so rightly refers it to the fourth century B. C. 
THE HEAD FROM OLYMPIA. 
Impressed by its remarkable likeness to the head of the /Agias, I 
hazarded the opinion some years ago,‘ that the much discussed Pentelic 
marble head from Olympia (Frontispiece and Figure 69)° was Lysippan, 
and attempted to bring it into relation 
with the statue of the Akarnanian pan- 
cratiast (whose name I restored as Phi- 
landridas), which Pausanias® says was the 
work of Lysippos. Since then, after a 
careful revision of the evidence, this ear- 
lier opinion has become conviction, and I 
now have no hesitancy in expressing the 
belief that in this vigorous marble head 
we have to do with an original work by 
Lysipposhimself. It will be our task briefly 
to rehearse the reasons for making such 
an ascription, despite the serious and 
weighty objections which might be raised 
against it. 
At first this head was ascribed with sur- 
prising unanimity to the school of Prax- 
iteles,” and subsequently, after the discov- 
ery of the Tegea heads, with almost 
equal unanimity to that of Skopas. Treu, who first published the 
head,’ pointed out its near relationship to the Hermes of Praxiteles, 
which appeared to him to be obvious, notwithstanding the injured con- 

Fic. 69.—Marble Head, from 
Olympia. Museum of 
Olympia. 
1LaGlypt. Ny-Carlsberg, no. 240; Mahler ascribes this work to Lysippos: Polykl. u. s. Sch., 1902, 
eet. La 
2B. M. Sculpt., 1747, p. 102; Mp., p. 298 and fig. 126; Mw., pp. 515 and:517 and fig. 93; ef. 
Mrs. Strong, in Strena Helbigiana, 1900, p. 297. It is 6 ft. 8 in. high without the plinth (Smith). 
8A better copy is the torso in the Louvre, Photo Giraudon, no. 1289; a head is in the Lateran, 
no. 891. 
4De olymp. Stat., Halle, 1902, and enlarged, 1903, pp. 27 f. 
5 Bildw.v. Ol., Tafelbd., Pl. LIV, 3-4, and Textbd., p. 209, fig. 237; Ausgr.v. Ol., V, 1881, Pl. XX. 
PVE S21. 7The head is still exhibited at Olympia in the same room as the Hermes. 
84. Z., XX XVIII, 1880, p. 114; cf., Ausgr. v. Ol., V, pp. 13-14. 
