Athletes LXXVIII – The Winning Charioteer

            Scholars are now almost unanimous - at the current stage of the various iconographic, stylistic, and historical analyses of the statue - in identifying the figure as a victorious charioteer in the Panhellenic games, who stands in triumphant pose holding up a laurel wreath or some other symbol of victory. This interpretation gives rise to the intriguing hypothesis that the statue might originally have been part of a monument erected at Akragas to commemorate the Olympic victory won of the tyrant Theron in the chariot race in 476 B.C., with the quadriga being driven by the charioteer Nikomachos. 
It has also been hypothesized, however, that the charioteer depicted might he Thrasyboulos of the Emmenids. The statue is therefore generally attributed to a major Greek master working during the period immediately preceding the mid-fifth century B.C., and it would have come to Mozia as part of the war spoils from one of the Carthaginian victories in the final years of the fifth century over the richest and most powerful Sikeliote cities of the time - Selinous, Himera, Akragas, and Gela.

Source: Maria Luisa Famà, “The Mozia Charioteer”

Greek sculpture 
Marble from Greece or Turkey 
H. 181 cm.
About 460-450 BC.
Island of Motya (Trapani – Sicilia) - Museum Villa Whittaker.
On display London, The British Museum, Parthenon’s Frieze Hall.
Exhibition “Winning at the Ancient Games”. London, Olympic Games 2012.

   

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