340 POSITIONS OF VICTOR STATUES IN THE ALTIS. 
showing that the route passed before the eastern front of this tem- 
ple and thence westward to the Leonidaion. With these data and 
with the help of some forty inscribed bases of statues and other monu- 
ments mentioned by Pausanias, many of which were found in or near 
their original positions, it is possible to trace yet more definitely his 
routes. Several attempts have been made, since the German excava- 
tions, to define topographically the positions of these statues, especially 
by Hirschfeld,’ Scherer,? Flasch,? Doerpfeld,* and the present writer.’ 
The position of several inscribed base-fragments of statues, cor- 
responding with Pausanias’ order of presentation, should alone be 
sufficient to confute the doubts raised by some scholars that these 
routes through the Altis were not topographical.® But in any attempt 
to reconstruct them we must constantly be on our guard against 
assuming that Pausanias describes a continuous line or row of monu- 
ments, as both Hirschfeld and Scherer have done. ‘Though here and 
there this may have been true, still, generally speaking, we must con- 
ceive of these statues as being strewn about the Altis in no other order 
than that they stood in groups, and that these groups had only a general 
direction; for we shall see that Pausanias sometimes returns to the 
same spot without mentioning it and often leaves long spaces unnoticed. 
Apart from the indication of such groups in the description itself, as 
attested by the use of such words as Tapa, eperins, MET Gs wAno lov, ava- 
KeTae éml, éyyuTata, Omicber, weTakl, ov TOPPw, OV TpdTw, K.T.v., I have 
already shown in my previous work that it is possible to reconstruct 
many other groups, for abundant proof is there given that statues of 
nearly contemporaneous victors were often grouped together, as were 
those of the same family or state, or those victorious in the same contest, 
or those whose statues were made by the same artist.’ So, in general, 
we can group only certain statues in belts or “zones’’ around some build- 
ing or monument which is still im situ. Further than this we can sel- 
dom go. W. Gurlitt has thus well expressed the difficulty of following 
these routes of Pausanias: “‘Jede folgende Statue ist nach der vorherge- 
henden orientirt zu denken . . . Beziehungen auf frueher oder spaeter 
erwaehnte Monumente waren ueberfluessig . . . wir sind. . . auf 
14. Z., XL, 1882, pp. 119 f. (and Sketch-plan). aE Patou 
3In Baum., II, pp. 1094 f. 
etc Ergebnisse, Textbd., I (Topographie und Geschichte), pp. 87 f.; cf. A. M., XIII, 1888, 
DDVe9 Sort 
*De olymp. Stat., Ch. III, pp. 63 f. The outline therein forms the basis of the present treatment. 
The numbers of the victors from the catalogue of that work, showing the order of presentation 
by Pausanias, are here retained in parentheses: ¢. g., Telemachos (122). A letter after the num- 
ber indicates either that an adjacent “honor” statue, ¢. g., Philonides (154a), stood next to a victor 
statue, ¢. g., Menalkeas (154), or that no statue is mentioned. 
SE. g., Kalkmann, Pausanias der Perieget, 1886, p. 88. 
7E. g., nos. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 were Eleans; 7-9 and 11-14 were Spartans; 17-18 and 23-26 were 
Eleans; 45 and 48-49, 51, 54, 57 were Arkadians; 6-9 and 11-14 were victors in chariot-races; 
30, 34, 37, 40 were pancratiasts; 25-28 had statues by Sikyonian artists; 39-40 had statues by 
Athenian artists; 59-63 formed a family group; etc. 
