Peloponnesian War, Victory Monuments

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Nikai and Victory Monuments

Nike of Achermos

Farshooter [Apollo, receive this] fine figure [... worked by] the skills of Archermos, from the Chian Mikkiades, ... the paternal city of Melas
Only more recently have Nike and Eros acquired wings. For some say that it was Archennos [sic] the father of Boupalos and Athenis, others that it was Aglaophon the Thasian painter who made Nike winged, as Karystios of Pergamon relates. (Scholium to Aristophanes, Birds 573)

Nike of Paionios

Temple of Athena Nike, Athens

Erechtheion

Mynnion, living in Argile, [made] the horse and the man striking it, and later added the stele: 127 drachmas. Soklos, living in Alopeke, the man holding the bridle, 60 dr.; Phyromachos of Kephisia, the man leaning on a staff beside the altar: 60 dr.; Iasos of Kollye, the woman with the little girl leaning against her, 80 dr.; Payments for sculpture, sum total: 335 dr.; Receipts, 4302 dr. 1 obol. Expenditure: the same. (IG 1[3] 476, ll. 169-83.

Last modified Nov 7, 1996, by Nick Cahill