Cook, Arthur B.: Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 2,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (thunder and lightning): Text and notes (Cambridge, 1925)

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found in the Argolid and preserved in the Central Museum at
Athens, is engraved with two Mithraic subjects and an inscription in
Greek letters (fig. 390)1. A smaller celt of dark green jade or

Fig. 389.

nephrite, brought from Egypt in 1812 by Colonel Milner, aide-de-
camp to Lord J. Bathurst, and presented by Mrs Milner to the
Christy collection, is covered on both faces with ' Gnostic' inscriptions

1 A. Dumont in G. de Mortillet Matiriaux pour Vhistoire primitive et philosophique
de Vhomme Saint-Germain en Laye 1868 iv. 9 first drew attention to this axe. E. T.
Stevens Flint Chips London 1870 p. 114 and Sir J. Evans The Ancient Stone Imple-
ments, Weapons and Ornaments, of Great Britain"- London 1897 p. 61 f. followed suit.
E. Cartailhac IJage de pierre dans les souvenirs et superstitions populaires Paris 1877
p. 31 fig. i4 = Perrot—Chipiez Hist, de PArt vi. 119 fig. 5 (inaccurate). Harrison Themis
V- 57 fig- ^ (inscription corrected, after R. M. Dawkins). My illustration is from an im-
pression in plaster kindly furnished by Mr B. Staes.