STATUES KNOWN ONLY FROM RECOVERED BASES. 307 
Nikodromos, was found southwest of the Altis before the West Altis 
wall;* the base of two unknown victors from Elis were found respec- 
tively in the Prytaneion? and northwest of the Byzantine church,? while 
that of another Elean, Antigenes, the son of Jason, victor ouvwptée 
mwAuKH, was found in the southwest corner of the Altis.4 
The positions of the twenty-four bases (belonging to monuments 
of twenty-two victors) with certainty referred to the first pre- 
Christian century were very scattered. One large Pentelic marble 
bathron, supporting the monuments of seven victors of the family of 
Philistos, must have stood just south of the Philippeion, where most of 
the fragments were found. ‘The bases of the statues of two other sons 
and a grandson of the same victor have been recovered, and doubtless 
stood near by, thus forming a family group of ten, outnumbering that 
of Diagoras (59-63 and 52) mentioned by Pausanias. ‘The omission 
of so important a monument in the description of the Periegete has, 
of course, been used as an indication of his employment of earlier lists. 
Of the other bases, two were found outside the South Altis wall, west 
of the Council-house, and two east of it; two east of the temple of Zeus 
(one of them that of the youthful Tiberius, afterwards Roman emperor, 
which must have stood near the Eretrian Bull, where it was found); 
one southwest of the temple, along the South Terrace wall, pointing 
to a position among the statues there named by Pausanias; one east of 
the Byzantine church, pointing to a position south of the Theekoleon, 
two to the northwest of the Altis in the vicinity of the Prytaneion; while 
the others were found scattered all the way from the northeastern part of 
the Altis to the bed of the Kladeos. Thus over half (13) of these statue- 
bases were found in the west and northwest of the Altis and beyond; 
the space to the east of the temple of Zeus—called frequentissimus 
celeberrimusque by Scherer—seems now not to have been greatly prized. 
Most of these victories were gained in hippic contests. Horse-racing 
had early been discontinued, but was revived at the end of the first 
century B.C., when members of the imperial family, emulating the 
earlier triumphs of the princes of Sicily and Macedonia, became com- 
petitors. Thus Tiberius won in the chariot-race, and a few years later 
his nephew Germanicus in the same event. ‘The list of these bases of 
victor statues of the first century B.C. and their provenience follows. A 
fragmentof the base of the victor Agilochos, son of Nikeas of Elis, victor 
KéAnTe TwALK@, Was found in the East Byzantine wall. One fragment 
of the bathron of the family group of the Elean Philistos,® victors in 
hippic contests, was found southwest of the Pelopion, while four others 
1Inschr. v. Ol., no. 194; Foerster, 484. 2Tbid., no. 195. 
3Jbid., no. 196. 47 bid., no. 197; Foerster, 808 (undated). 
5]bid., no. 191; Foerster, 807 (undated). 
6[bid., nos. 198-204; see Foerster, 542-547; one of the group, Telemachos, son of Leon, had 
another statue at Olympia: Jnschr. 9. Ol., 406. 
