356 POSITIONS OF VICTOR STATUES IN THE ALTIS. 
stood in the vicinity of this building, and the fourth was found farther 
south, by the Palaistra, where it probably stood. ‘Thus the base of 
the wrestler Nikarchos, son of Physsias, was found in a late wall west 
of the Prytaneion;! that of the statue of an unknown victor, son of 
Taurinos, was found at the southeast corner of the Palaistra;? that of 
another unknown victor, the son of . . . . phinos, was found in the 
Nordwestgraben;? the base of the statue of Thersonides, son of 
Paianodoros, victor KéAnTe TwALK@, was found northwest of the Pry- 
taneion, between the Roman baths and east hall of the Gymnasion.* 
Of the four statues referred with certainty to the second century B. C., 
all but one were found to the west of the Altis, in a region ranging from 
the Philippeion, northwest of the temple of Zeus, to the Leonidaion 
southwest of it. “Two of them were found outside the West Altis wall, 
between the Leonidaion and the Byzantine church. Thus the base of 
the statue of D. . . gonos, twice victor in 7U&, was found outside 
the apse of the Byzantine church and west of the West Altis wall;® 
the fragments of that of an unknown boy victor in wrestling or the 
pankration were found in the East Byzantine wall;® that of an un- 
known victor, cvvwplde Te\elqa (twice), and apuate Te\elw, was found 
south of the Philippeion.’ ‘The fragment of the base of the statue of 
another unknown victor in wrestling, the son of the Elean Aigyptos, 
was found to the northeast of the Leonidaion.$ 
Of the seven bases referred to the second and first centuries B. C., 
three were found in or near the Byzantine church, showing that such 
statues may have stood in the Greek building which was later converted 
into the church.® Two more were found near the southwest corner of 
the Altis, and therefore may once have stood near the statue of Phil- 
onides, which Pausanias mentions as standing in that vicinity. Two 
others stood farther away, one inside the Prytaneion, the other north- 
east of the temple of Zeus. ‘Thus the base of an unknown victor, the 
son of Aristotle, cvywptde twAtkh, was found in front of the north side 
of the Byzantine church;'° that of Aristodamos, the son of Aleximachos 
of Elis, was found in the floor of the church;" that of an unknown victor 
was found northeast of the temple of Zeus;! that of a victor cuvwpt6e 
TwALKH, Whose name ended in. . . chos, the son of the Elean 

1Inschr. v. Ol., no. 175; Foerster, 375. Foerster’s proposed dating of this victor, Ol. 110 (=340 
B. C.), is wrong. *Tbid., no. 180. 
3Tbid., no. 181. 4Tbid., no. 182. 5Tbid., no. 185. 
Si bid..no0n Lar. TIbid., no. 188. 87 bid., no. 189. 
*This Greek building dates from the first half of the fifth century B. C. Cf. F. Adler, OL., 
Ergebn., Textbd., II (Die Baudenkmaeler), pp. 93-105 (especially 98 f.), and Flasch, in Baum., 
pp. 1070-1 and 1104 M f., both of whom identify it with the workshop of Pheidias (P., V, 15.1); 
Curtius, Die Altaere v. Ol. Abhandl. d. k. Preuss. Akad. d. Wiss. zu Berlin, 1882, p. 20 
(=Gesamm. Abhandl., 1894, II, pp. 57 f.), refers it to the Theekoleon, generally identified with 
the easternmost of che two buildings further north. See Plans A and B. 
10Inschr. v. Ol., no. 190. UJ bid., no. 192. Bibid. Dosa 
