THE STATUE OF ARRHACHION AT PHIGALIA. SP 
kration in Ols. 52-54 (=572-564 B.c.).! Therefore his statue is one 
of the oldest victor monuments of which we have record. At so early 
a date, before individual types of victor stautes had been developed, we 
should expect, in harmony with the description of Pausanias, that this 
statue would conform in style with the well-known archaic “Apollo” 
type, the most characteristic of early Greek sculpture, which, as we 
saw in Chapter III, is exemplified in the long series of statues found 
all over the Greek world, the oldest class being represented by the 
example from Thera (Fig. 9), and one 
of the youngest by that from Tenea 
near Corinth (Pl. 8A). 
In his commentary on the passage 
of Pausanias, Sir J. G. Frazer records 
that during a visit in May, 1890, 
he saw a recently discovered archaic 
stone statue in a field just outside 
Pavlitsa, a village on the site of the 
southeastern precincts of the old city 
of Phigalia, some 2.5 miles from the 
temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bas- 
sai. He thought that this statue 
agreed completely with Pausanias’ 
description of Arrhachion’s, even to 
the half-effaced inscription which he 
transcribed from its breast just below 
the neck.2, Through the courtesy of 
Dr. Svoronos, of the National Numis- 
matic Museum in Athens, I have been 
able to procure a photograph of the 
monument from K. Kouroniotis, Fic. 79.—Stone Statue of theOlym- 
the Arkadian Ephor of antiquities sta- _ pic Victor Arrhachion, from Phi- 
tioned at Bassai, and I present it here- zales ; Pee RE House at 
with (Fig. 79). The statue is now aE MEN NES EAL 

1Both Africanus (see Rutgers, /. c.), and Pausanias (/. c.) date the third victory. Pausanias 
and Philostratos, 21, place the other two victories in the Ols. just preceding. Cf. Rutgers, 
p. 20, n. 1, and Foerster, nos. 98, 101, 103. The story how Arrhachion expired at the moment 
of victory, throttled by his adversary, whose toe he succeeded in putting out of joint, is told by 
Africanus, Pausanias (VIII, 40.2), and Philostratos (Imag., II, 6=p. 411); Pausanias also men- 
tions that the body was crowned. 
2Frazer, IV, pp. 391-2; III, pp. 40-1. The statue has otherwise not been published. In all 
probability it is the same one listed by Waldemar Deonna, in his Les Apollons archaiques, Geneva, 
1909, p. 187, no. 79. This was seen at Phigalia in 1891 by M. Chamonard and notices of it are 
to be found in the following works: B. C. H., XV, 1891, pp. 440 and 448; Chroniques d’ Orient, 
II, p. 36; R. Et. gr., 1892, p. 127; Mueller, Nacktheit und Entbloessung in d. altoriental. und 
aelteren griech. Kunst, Diss. inaug., 1906, p. 100; Rouse, p. 307. 
Pausanias’ description of Arrhachion’s statue is discussed by the following: Scherer, pp. 16 and 
23; Iwan v. Mueller, Handbuch, VI, p. 530: Dumont, Mélanges d’ Arch., p. 53; Lange, Darstellung 
des Menschen in der aelteren griech. Kunst, 1899; Brunn, Griech. Kunstgesch., I, p. 73; Over- 
beck, Griech. Kunstmythol., III, Apollon, p. 12, no. 9; Klein, p. 146; Reisch, p. 40; Collignon, I, 
Peete tan’ B..C. H.,V, 1881, p. 321; cf. Deonna, op. cz2t.; p. 13, a. 4. 
