348 POSITIONS OF VICTOR STATUES IN THE ALTIS. 
(see Plan B).’ It is clear that no such row of statues would have 
been placed leading up to a dead wall; therefore these statues must 
have stood there before the wall was built, and must once have 
formed the eastern boundary of a broad street skirting the eastern 
side of the Leonidaion, which was twice as wide as later, when the 
wall cut off half its breadth and made it a “lane,” though the older name 
“street”? was retained. ‘The later Roman enlargement of the Altis 
is well known. ‘The long row of pedestals to the south of and parallel 
to those already discussed as standing along the line of che South 
Terrace wall, westward of the base of Telemachos, once constituted 
the southern boundary of the “Processional Way” (666s moun), 
which ran from the Leonidaion to where it debouched into the Altis 
at its southeastern corner. Originally outside the Altis, they were 
later, together with the road itself, included in it. The pedestals, 
then, in the above-mentioned cul de sac, and also the fourteen (among 
them that of Metellus Macedonicus; see Plan B) that adorned the 
south side of the Processional Way, may be the remains of some of 
these last statues mentioned by Pausanias. 
THE SEcoND EpHopos oF PAUSANIAS. 
We next come to the second édodos, which is introduced by these 
words: Ki 6€ aro Tov Aewvtdatov mpos Tov Buwyov Tov péeyav adikéo bar TH 
deEta OeAjoeas, TOTAE EcTL Gol TV avynKovTw és uvyjunv.2 Lhe Leoni- 
daion, the site of which was still in dispute till after the close of the 
excavations, was finally indentified by Treu® with the so-called Sued- 
westbau, as had been already assumed by many investigators. The 
site of the Great Altar, however, is still undetermined. ‘The elliptical 
depression to the east of the Pelopion, whose dimensions (125 feet in 
circumference) agree with the figures of Pausanias® for the prothusts, 
See 4. M., XIII, 1888, pp. 327-336 and Pl. VII (Die Altis Mauer in Olympia). On the 
west of the Altis are the ruins of two parallel walls, the inner Greek, the outer Roman; the origi- 
nal South wall of the Altis ran along the line of the South Terrace wall, the later Roman wall 
(dating from Nero’s time) to the south of it. Thus in Pausanias’ day, the écodos rouruh was 
opposite the Leonidaion. In two other passages, however, it appears to be at the southeast cor- 
ner of the Altis (V, 15.7; VI, 20.7). R. Heberdey (in Eranos Vindobonensis, 1893, pp. 34-47) 
explains this discrepancy by saying that Pausanias, in mentioning the southwestern entrance, 
is writing from his own observation after the Roman extension, and in the other passages is 
copying from other writers who wrote before that extension. Doerpfeld’s explanation, however, 
is better: in the Roman extension a gate was built at the southwest corner of the new West wall 
superseding the older southeast entrance. Processions still passed along the same way, but were 
now inside the Altis, the great gateway of Nero at the southeast corner being given up after his 
death. Cf. Frazer, III, pp. 570-572; Hitz.-Bluemn., II, 2, pp. 375-6. 
SPENT 
°A. M., XIII, 1888, pp. 317-326 (Die Bauinschrift des Leonidaions zu Olympia); and cf. 
Inschr. v. Ol., no. 651, and Olympia, Ergebn., Textbd., II, Die Baudenkmaeler, pp. 83-93, and 
Tafelbd., Pls. LXII-LXVI (R. Borrmann). 
‘E. g., K. Lange, Haus und Halle, 1885, pp. 331; Hirschfeld, 4. Z., XL, 1882, p. 121; Flasch, 
in Baum., II, pp.1095 and 1104 K. Others placed it elsewhere: ¢. g., Curtius-Adler, Olympia und 
Umgegend, 1882, pp. 23 f.; Scherer, op. cit., pp. 55 f. (and Plan), identified it with the ““South- 
east Building,” where he had this second égo6os begin. 
®V, 13.9. For full account of the altar, see V, 13.8-11. 
