oe TWO MARBLE HEADS FROM VICTOR STATUES. 
stele found in the bed of the Ilissos in 1874, and now in the National 
Museum in Athens (Fig. 74),! the so-called Meleager in the Vatican 
(Fig. 75),2 and other copies of the same original (e. g., Figs. 76, 77), also 
shows how closely the type of Lysippos approached that of Skopas. 
Long ago I expressed the view’ that these and similar works should be 

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Fic. 74.—Attic Grave-Relief, found in the 
Bed of the Ilissos, Athens. National 
Museum, Athens. 
1Kabbadias, I, p. 416, no. 869; Stais, Marbres et Bronzes, pp. 168 f. and fig.; Conze, Griech. 
Grabreliefs, IX, 1897, no. 1055 and Pl. CCXI; B. B., 469; Bulle, 267; von Mach, 369; P. Gardner, 
Sculptured Tombs of Hellas, 1896, Pl. XIV and p. 152; Gardner, Sculpt., Pl. LXV and p. 208; 
Graef, R. M., IV, 1889, pp. 199 f.; von Sybel, Weltgesch. d. Kunst, fig. 204; id., Zeitschr. f. bild. 
Kunst, N. F., Il, p. 293; cf. Wolters, 4. M., XVIII, 1893, p. 6. It is 1.68 meters in height and 
1.07 eee See (Stais). The likeness of the head of the athlete in this relief to that of the Agias 
is striking. 
*It was formerly in the Sala di Meleagro, but was later removed to the Sala degli animali: Hel- 
big, Fuehrer, I, 128, and Nachtrag; Guide, I, p. 78, no. 133; Amelung, Vat., II, p. 33, no. 10, and 
Pls. III and XII; B. B., 386; von Mach, 216; id., Greek Sculpture, Its Spirit and Principles, 1903, 
pp. 279 f.; Bulle, p. 484, fig. 145; Ant. Denkm., I, 4, 1889, Pl. XL, 1a, 1b (head); Graef, R. M., 
IV, pp. 218 f.; Reinach, Rép., 1, 479, 2; Clarac, 805, 2021. It is 2.10 meters high (Amelung). 
’De olymp. Stat., p. 28. 

