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)

562 The double axe and Zeus Labrdyndos

joint appellation 'Apollon Tyrimnos1? and consequently also with
Helios, his full title then being ' the forefather god Helios Pythios
Apollon Tyrimnaios"' or ' the forefather god Helios Pythios Ty-
rimnaios Apollon3.' Apollon Tyrimnos is seen on bronze coins of
Thyateira grasping the double axe. Sometimes he stands erect, a
naked figure, long-haired and laureate, holding the axe in one hand
and a bay-branch in the other (figs. 439, 440)4. Sometimes, wearing
a chlamys, he takes his stand with axe and branch in his temple

(fig. 441 )5, or with axe and agonistic urn as lord of the Pythian
games (fig. 442)°. Occasionally, though not often before the third
century A.D., he wears the radiate crown of Helios7 and even
appears in the solar chariot (fig. 443)8. It is clear, then, that at
Thyateira the ancestral hero Tyrimnos, who bore the sacred axe of
the youthful Hittite sky-god, came to be identified with Apollon
and ultimately with Helios. And here we note that a heroic figure
on horseback likewise bearing the labrys occurs on the bronze

1 G. Radet loc. cit. p. 453 no. 14, 2 f. {Kenes) 'AttoWwvl Tvpi/j-vw[i k]o.I rrj Tra.Tpi\8t,
p. 463 no. 29, 5 ff. (Thyateira) dywvodeT^aavra tov wpb \ w6\ews ' AwoWwvos Tvpi\/j.vou
XavTrpws Kai ey<56£w[s].

2 Corp. inscr. Gr. ii no. 3500, 8 ff. (Thyateira) (l)epevs ro(0) | wpowaTopos deov 'Wklov
Hvdi\\o\v ' AirbWwvos (T)vpLfxvaiov, E. L. Hicks 'Inscriptions from Thyatira' in the Class.
Rev. 1889 iii. 137 no. 14, 4 ff. 6 djiovo\6iTris tou Trpoira\ropos deov 'H\i'jou llvdiov 'A7r<5\-
\u\vos T(v)pi/j.vaiov. Cp. G. Radet loc. cit. p. 475 f. no. 49, 6 (Rleder) TvpL/j.vai[ov?].

3 P. Foucart in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1887 xi. 101 ff. no. 24, 2 ff. {Me'der) i] Kpario-Ti]
Kai <pi\oae[3a.o-tos tt)s Xa/x\TrpoTaTijs Kai 5iao-r]p.oT&Tr]s Kai iepas \ tov irpoiraTopos deov 'HXlov
llvdiov I Ivpi/uLvaiov 'Att6Wojvos QvaTeiprjvdv | irdXeus /3ov\rj k.t.X.

4 F. Imhoof-Blumer Lydische Stadtmunzen Genf—Leipzig 1897 p. 151 f. pi. 6, 10
( = my fig. 439) Hadrian. Id. Klehws. Miinzen i. 186 pi. 6, 15 ( = my fig. 440) Trajan,
Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lydia p. 294 pi. 29, 5 time of Trajan or Hadrian, p. 303 pi- 31, 1
Trajan, add a chlamys to the otherwise nude figure.

5 F. Imhoof-Blumer Lydische Stadtiniinzen Genf—Leipzig 1897 pp. 151, 158 pi. 6, 15
(= my fig. 441) Geta.

li Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lydia p. 314 no. 119 Iulia Soaemias, F. Imhoof-Blumer op.
cit. p. 158 f. pi. 6, 16 ( = my fig. 442) Iulia Soaemias.

7 Infra p. 564 n. 4.

8 F. Imhoof-Blumer op. cit. pp. 151, 159 pi. 6, 17 (==my fig. 443) Severus Alexander.

Fig. 441.

Fig. 442.