ἀσκήσαντος, by the sculptor Kritios, as standing upon the Athenian
Akropolis (I, 23.9). The inscribed base of this monument was found in
1839, between the Propylaia and the Parthenon.[2552] The inscription
states that the statue was the joint work of Kritios (thus correcting
the spelling Κριτίας of Pausanias) and Nesiotes. It was, therefore,
a work of the first half of the fifth century B. C., the date of
the sculptors of the _Tyrannicides_ (Fig. 32). Ross added the word
ὁπλιτοδρόμος after the name in the inscription. Michaelis,[2553]
however, has inserted the name of the victor’s father. Wilamowitz[2554]
went further and assumed that Polemon, from whom Pausanias derived the
account, had already falsely restored the inscription and that the
statue did not represent Epicharinos, but another victor. This theory
has been rightly controverted by many scholars.[2555] It is clear that
Pausanias got his information from the monument, and not from the
inscription.