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Drawing by Friedrich Kühnert (1865-1926) showing a reconstruction of the statue of Antinous from Olympia.
In the Archaeological Museum of Olympia there is a marble torso belonging probably to a cult statue of Antinous.
The torso was found in 1880 in the palestra by Georg Treu (1846-1921), along with other fragments of the original 1,80 m statue: right leg, left wade and hand.
The evidence that the statue was a depiction of Antinous was provided, in Treu's opinion, by the sculpture of the Bithynian found at Delphi in 1894, due to their similarity: both match completely in style, movement, pose, and dimensions.
The Olympia statue, due to the position of the left hand and the fact that it hold some kind of long staff, probably the thyrsus, must have been a cult statue of Antinous as the New Dionysos.
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