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)

The double axe and Zeus Labrdyndos 563

coinage of other Lydian towns—Apollonia (Tripolis) (?)\ Blaundos
(fig. 444)2, Mastaura3, Mostene4, Tomaris5. At Mostene he is once

Fig. 446. Fig. 447. Fig. 448.

at least flanked by sun and moon (fig. 445)'!, and is repeatedly seen
riding towards a cypress-tree, before which stands a flaming altar
(fig. 446)7, sometimes escorted on his way by Hermespsychopomposij)

1 Imhoof-Blumer Gr. Miinzen p. 143f.no. 425 pi. 10, 1 ('Amazone') = id. Lydische
Stadtmiinzen p. 38 pi. 2, 17 ('jugendlicher Heros'). B. V. Head in the Brit. Mus. Cat.
Coins p. 363 pi. 38, 4 f. says : 'Amazon (?),' and adds in a footnote : ' The Rider on these
specimens is distinctly feminine in appearance,' etc. But see F. Imhoof-Blnmer Lydische
Stadtmiinzen p. 103.

'-' Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lydia p. 53 pi. 5, 12 ( = my fig. 444) Marcus Aurelius, cp.
p. 55 no. 85 Philippus Senior and p. 57 no. 91 Trebonianus Gallus; F. Imhoof-Blumer
Lydische Stadtmiinzen p. 51 pi. 3, 8.

3 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lydia p. 157 no. 5 f. Tiberius and Livia, F. Imhoof-Blumer
op. cit. p. 96 no. 3 Tiberius and Livia.

4 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lydia p. 161 pi. 17, 8 [ib. p. 161 no. 2 'Rider apparently
female') of s. ii or i B.C., p. 162 no. 7 f. Claudius and Agrippina, F. Imhoof-Blumer op.
cit. p. 100 no. 1 time of Augustus, or earlier, p. 101 no. 4 Claudius and Agrippina, no. 5
Vespasian.

5 F. Imhoof-Blumer op. cit. p. 165 pi. 7, 6.

6 F. Imhoof-Blumer op. cit. p. 101 f. pi. 4, 19 ( = my fig. 445) Vespasian.

7 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lyd-ia p. 162 pi. 17, 10 time of Commodus (?), p. 162 no. 9
Hadrian, p. 163 pi. 17, 12 ( = my fig. 446) Lucius Verus, p. 163 pi. 17, 13 Lucilla, p. 163
no. 13 Commodus, p. 164 nos. 16 and 17 pi. 17, 14 Gallienus.