344 POSITIONS OF VICTOR STATUES IN THE ALTIS. 
corner of the temple of Zeus.!_ For, of the next few statues mentioned, 
the base of that of Sosikrates (71) was found “‘somewhere”’ east of the 
temple, that of Kritodamos (80) before the ‘Southeast Building,” 
and that of Xenokles (85), 4 meters to the northeast of the Victory base, 
presumably near its original position.?, Pausanias groups the three 
Arkadian athletes, Euthymenes-Kritodamos (78-80, P., VI, 8.5); then, 
after naming four statues of victors from other states, he mentions two 
more Arkadians together, Xenokles and Alketos (85-86, VI, 9.2); and 
he continues by saying that the statues of the Argives Aristeus and 
Cheimon (87-88, VI, 9.3) stood together. One more statue, that of 
Phillen or Philys*® of Elis (89), is named before he comes to the chariot 
of Gelo. ‘Thus we may conclude that the series of statues denoted by 
the numbers 71-89 (P., VI, 8.1-9.4) stood to the south of the Eretrian 
Bull in the parallel zone of the Victory. 
We next come to the series of statues mentioned between the chariots 
of Gelo and Kleosthenes (90-99). ‘The position of the bases of these 
chariots is practically certain. In describing the statues of Zeus in Book 
V, Pausanias says he is proceeding north from the Council-house (23.1), 
and first mentions a statue of Zeus set up by the Greeks who fought 
at Platza; in describing the victor statues he says that the chariot 
of Kleosthenes stands behind this statue of Zeus (P., VI, 10.6). After 
describing the Zeus of Plataea, he mentions a bronze inscribed tablet as 
standing in front of it (V, 23.4), which recorded the thirty years’ treaty 
of peace between Sparta and Athens, and then says that the statueof the 
Zeus of the Megarians stands near the chariot of Kleosthenes (23.5). 
As he is proceeding north, this Megarian Zeus must have stood north 
of the Platzan one; thus in one group we have the two statues of Zeus 
and the chariot of Kleosthenes. Immediately to the north he next 
mentions the chariot of the Syracusan tyrant Gelo (90), which he says 
is near the statue of the Zeus of the Hybleans (23.6). Now in coming 
south, in the athlete periegesis, he names eight statues between these 
chariots. Doerpfeld‘ has identified the base of the Plateaan Zeus with a 
See Inschr. v. Ol., no. 259, and Ol., Ergebn., Textbd., II, pp. 153-155, etc.; cf. P., V, 26.1. 
See Inschr. v. Ol., nos. 157 (Solsi]krates; for the restoration of the name, see Hyde, p. 37); 167 
(Kritodamos); 164 (Xenokles). The plate from the pedestal of the statue of the unknown Arka- 
dian victor (79) was found far away from this point, in the Palaistra. We have shown (supra, pp. 
244-5,) that the statue of Philippos (79a), mentioned by Pausanias as the work of Myron (cf. VI, 
8.5), was probably only that of this older unknown Arkadian, later used for Philippos, who won 
some time between Ols. (?) 119 and 125 (=304 and 280 B. C.); see Inschr. v. Ol., no. 174; cf. Hyde, 
op. cit., pp. 39-41. 8On the name, see Hyde, p. 42. 
‘See Ol., Ergebn., Textbd., I, p. 86, and cf. II, p. 78. A slit in the lower step of the base of the 
Zeus may have contained the tablet mentioned by P., V, 23.4. Three of the four inscribed 
blocks of Gelo’s chariot base were found in the Palaistra: Inschr. v. Ol., under no. 143. 
For Doerpfeld’s identification of the Council-house (Bouleuterion) with the tripartite building 
south of the temple of Zeus just outside the South Altis wall, see 4usgrab. zu Ol., IV, 1878-1879, 
pp. 40-46, and Olympia, Ergebn., Textbd., I, pp. 76-79. Others, on the basis of a passage in Xeno- 
phon’s Hell., VII, 4.31, wrongly place it near the Prytaneion in the northwestern part of the 
Altis. Cf. Frazer, III, pp. 636 f., and Doerpfeld, l. c., pp. 78 f. See Plans A and B. 
