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)

568 The double axe and Zeus Labrdyndos

Larmends1, Apollon Larbenos2, Apollon Leimenos*, Apollon Lyr-
menosi, Helios Apollon Lermendsh, Helios Apollon Lyermen6s%. The
marble stele that mentions Apollon Lyrmends is topped by a relief
representing a double axe. We may, therefore, with a clear con-
science regard some at least of the Phrygian riders as effigies of

Lairbenos or Lairmenos, who was identified both with Apollon and
with Helios. But here we must walk warily ; for a votive stele from
Koula shows another axe-bearer on horseback named Apollon
Bosends (fig. ^6^)7, while a second stele from the same site has a

KaTaiir[i]\Tayr]i> k.t.\.,8'Ait6\\uvi Aaip/j.t]v[q'\ | k.t.X. (a later inscription, dated 209 A.D.) —
The Cities and Bishoprics of PJirygia i. 147 no. 37.

1 J~otir7i. Hell. Stud. 1887 viii. 389 no. 18, 2 ff. KoXa(r\[dels v]wb tov iir«p\[aveffr^arov
deou I ['Att6X]Xwuos Aap\[/u.r)vov]= The Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia i. 152 no. 51.

2 Jonrn. Hell. Stud. 1883 iv. 381 f. no. 4, 4= The Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia i.
148 no. 39 [/caret iirirayriv de~\Qv 'Att6XXwvl Aapf3r)i>£ k.t.X.

3 Journ. Hell. Stud. 1887 viii. 385 ff. no. 15, iff. /jiiyas'AttoXXw AafMrjuos. | Hotypov
iepbs Ko\e(6e)is | eno 'AtoXXuvos Aei\ixy)voxi k.t.X. — The Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia i.
151 f. no. 49, where however Sir W. M. Ramsay reads Ae[p][j.7}v6s and Ae[p]/j.t;vou.

4 Joum. Hell. Stud. 1889 x. 218 f. no. 2, iff. ['Ov]ri<Tt/j.os 'AvoXXuvi [A~]v[p]\[fnjvu]
ev^dfievos virep tov KoX\[a<r9]{i>TOs poos 81a to vaT[epri][[Kev]e k.t.X. = The Cities and Bishoprics
of Phrygia i. 149 f. no. 42. Above the inscription is carved a labrys.

5 Joum. Hell. Stud. 1883 iv. 380 f. no. 3, 3 f. = The Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia
i. I47 no. 38'H\(co ['AttoWwci] | AepurjvQ,

6 Joum. Hell. Stud. 1883 iy- 3§3 no- 5= The Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia i. 146
no. 34 Mr]Tpl ArjTol Kal'HXiu 'A7r6X[\wvt AvepivqvQ k.t.X.

7 A. Conze in the Arch. Zeit. 1880 xxxviii. 37 f., Sir W. M. Ramsay in the Joum.
Hell. Stud. 1889 x. 226 no. 18, id. The Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia i. 152 f. no. 52,
Ant. Skulpt. Berlin p. 252 no. 680 fig. ( = my fig. 463). The inscription runs: 'AvTuvia
'AvTUviou 'Att6X\Xuvl 6eui Ho^rjvu Std to a\va(iefiri[Kf\ve fxe eirl tov X°\Pov (f°r T0 XwPl0V)

Fig. 463.

Fig. 464.