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The double axe and Zeus Labrdyndos 569
double axe in relief as the symbol of Apollon Tarseus (fig. 464)\
These two appellatives, both of the local order, deserve a moment's
notice. Bozenos implies a place *Bozis or *B6za. And Sir VV. M.
Ramsay2 maintains that *Bozis is the equivalent (with European
vocalization) of Bazis'\ the name applied to the estate of Zeus
Asbamaios near Tyana in Kappadokia4. He further5 contends that
Bazis is for *Bag/us, to be connected, not only with Zend bagha,
' god,' Old Persian baga\ ' god,' and Sanskrit bhaga, ' lord,' but also
—as A. Fick declared6—with the Phrygian Zeus Bagaios1. Thus
pvirapGi iirevbvTr), \ KoXaaOltra be i^wp.oXo\yrj(xdp:r]v Ke dvidrjKa evXo\yiav otl iyevofi-qv bXb-
\_KK\\r)pos.
1 A. Conze in the Arch. Zeit. 1880 xxxviii. 38, Sir W. M. Ramsay in the Journ.
Hell. Stud. 1889 x. 226 no. 19, Ant. Skulpt. Berlin p. 252 no. 68r fig. ( = my fig. 464).
Beneath the labrys is inscribed : dvdiarricrav 01'AplrepLUvos vol to \ KaTrjaxdev (for Kareax^iv)
<TTri\\\dpiov virb rod /3oj6s ' AttoXXuvl Taper?.
2 Sir W. M. Ramsay The Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia i. 153 : 'comparing Atta-
los—Ottalos, Atreus—Otreus, Tattes—Tottes, Anas—Onnes, Kadauas—Kadouas, Vavas—
Vovas, Marsyas—Morsynos (p. 145) we find that Bozis is the exact equivalent to Bazis,
the name of the god's estate at Tyana, used also as a personal name [Bdfei? or Bafets as
a feminine personal name at Komana in Kappadokia (Sir W. M. Ramsay in the Journal
of Philology 1882 xi. 148 no. 6, 1 f. ' Adr^vats Lttltov 17 | Kai Baj'm)].'
3 Ptol. 5. 6. 17.
4 Philostr. v. Apoll. (. 6 p. 5 Kayser '£<jti 5i tl -rrepi Tvaua vbup'OpKlov Al6s, cos 0acri,
KaXovcn be avrb 'Ao~fiap.alov, ov Trrjyi] dvaSLSoTai \f/vxpdi, wacpXa'^ei Be, teenrep 6 6epp.aLvbp.evos
\£firis. tovto evbpKOLS p.ev tXeuiv re Kai i]5v vduip, ewLopKOLS be napa wbbas ij Blkt) ■ diroa'KTj-nreL yap
Kal is b<pda\p.ovs Kai es xeipas /cat is Trbbas, Kai vdepoLS oklcrKOVTaL Kai (pdbaLS, Kai ovb' aire\-
6elv bwarbv. aXX avrbdi exovraL Kai oXocpvpovraL wpbs tlc vbaTL bp-oXoyovvres a iirubpKrjCTav •
o'l fiev bi] eyx^pLOL <pao~l 7rai5a roO Atos rbv 'AttoXXwvlov yeyovivaL, 6 5' avrip 'AttoXXwvlov
iavrbv KaXel = Aristot. mir. ausc. 152 and, much abbreviated, in Souid. s.v. 'Acrfiap-aiov, cp.
Amm. Marc. 23. 6. 19 apud Asbamaei quoque Iovis templum in Cappadocia, ubi amplis-
simus ille philosophus Apollonius traditur natus prope oppidum Tyana, stagno effluens
fons cernitur qui magnitudine aquarum inflatus seseque resorbens numquam extra margines
intumescit. D. G. Hogarth ' Modern and ancient roads in eastern Asia Minor' in the
Royal Geographical Society: Supplemeittary Papers 1893 iii. 656 identifies this bubbling
spring with 'the boiling pond near Ekuzli Hissar...still resorted to from far and wide by
all afflicted with skin diseases.' Since the Iupiter Asbamaeus of Ammianus Marcellinus is
the Zeus "OpKLos of Philostratos, S. Bochart Phalegi Lugduni Batavorum—Trajecti ad
Rhenum 1692 p. 535 proposed to derive 'Aa^apaTos from the Hebrew seba, 'oath' {Me-seba
or Me-hasseba, 'aquae juramenti'). C. Lassen in the Zeitschrift der Deutschen morgen-
landischen Gesellschaft 1856 x. 377 attempted to connect it with the Zend and Old Persian
acman, 'heaven,'—a view rightly rejected by P. Carolidis Bemerkungen zu den alien
kleinasiatischen Sprachcn und Mythen Strassburg 1913 p. 38 f. W. Robertson Smith
Lectures on the Religion of the Semites'1 London 1907 p. 182, with much greater probability,
took it to mean the 'seven waters,' in Syriac shab'd may a.
5 Sir VV. M. Ramsay The Historical Geography of Asia Minor {Royal Geographical
Society's Supplementary Papers vol. iv) London 1890 p. 347, id. and D. G. Hogarth
'Prehellenic Monuments of Cappadocia' in the Recueil de Travaux relatifs a la Philologie
et a PArcheologie Egyptiennes et Assyriennes Paris 1893 xiv. 80.
G A. Fick Die ehemalige Spracheinheit der Indogermanen Europas Gottingen 1873
p. 412.
7 Hesych. Bayalos ■.. .rj Tievs Qpi/yLos. p.iyas, iroXvs, rax^s (the last three words are
bracketed by M. Schmidt, but see supra p. 295 n. 2). H. L. Ahrens De dialecto Dorica
double axe in relief as the symbol of Apollon Tarseus (fig. 464)\
These two appellatives, both of the local order, deserve a moment's
notice. Bozenos implies a place *Bozis or *B6za. And Sir VV. M.
Ramsay2 maintains that *Bozis is the equivalent (with European
vocalization) of Bazis'\ the name applied to the estate of Zeus
Asbamaios near Tyana in Kappadokia4. He further5 contends that
Bazis is for *Bag/us, to be connected, not only with Zend bagha,
' god,' Old Persian baga\ ' god,' and Sanskrit bhaga, ' lord,' but also
—as A. Fick declared6—with the Phrygian Zeus Bagaios1. Thus
pvirapGi iirevbvTr), \ KoXaaOltra be i^wp.oXo\yrj(xdp:r]v Ke dvidrjKa evXo\yiav otl iyevofi-qv bXb-
\_KK\\r)pos.
1 A. Conze in the Arch. Zeit. 1880 xxxviii. 38, Sir W. M. Ramsay in the Journ.
Hell. Stud. 1889 x. 226 no. 19, Ant. Skulpt. Berlin p. 252 no. 68r fig. ( = my fig. 464).
Beneath the labrys is inscribed : dvdiarricrav 01'AplrepLUvos vol to \ KaTrjaxdev (for Kareax^iv)
<TTri\\\dpiov virb rod /3oj6s ' AttoXXuvl Taper?.
2 Sir W. M. Ramsay The Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia i. 153 : 'comparing Atta-
los—Ottalos, Atreus—Otreus, Tattes—Tottes, Anas—Onnes, Kadauas—Kadouas, Vavas—
Vovas, Marsyas—Morsynos (p. 145) we find that Bozis is the exact equivalent to Bazis,
the name of the god's estate at Tyana, used also as a personal name [Bdfei? or Bafets as
a feminine personal name at Komana in Kappadokia (Sir W. M. Ramsay in the Journal
of Philology 1882 xi. 148 no. 6, 1 f. ' Adr^vats Lttltov 17 | Kai Baj'm)].'
3 Ptol. 5. 6. 17.
4 Philostr. v. Apoll. (. 6 p. 5 Kayser '£<jti 5i tl -rrepi Tvaua vbup'OpKlov Al6s, cos 0acri,
KaXovcn be avrb 'Ao~fiap.alov, ov Trrjyi] dvaSLSoTai \f/vxpdi, wacpXa'^ei Be, teenrep 6 6epp.aLvbp.evos
\£firis. tovto evbpKOLS p.ev tXeuiv re Kai i]5v vduip, ewLopKOLS be napa wbbas ij Blkt) ■ diroa'KTj-nreL yap
Kal is b<pda\p.ovs Kai es xeipas /cat is Trbbas, Kai vdepoLS oklcrKOVTaL Kai (pdbaLS, Kai ovb' aire\-
6elv bwarbv. aXX avrbdi exovraL Kai oXocpvpovraL wpbs tlc vbaTL bp-oXoyovvres a iirubpKrjCTav •
o'l fiev bi] eyx^pLOL <pao~l 7rai5a roO Atos rbv 'AttoXXwvlov yeyovivaL, 6 5' avrip 'AttoXXwvlov
iavrbv KaXel = Aristot. mir. ausc. 152 and, much abbreviated, in Souid. s.v. 'Acrfiap-aiov, cp.
Amm. Marc. 23. 6. 19 apud Asbamaei quoque Iovis templum in Cappadocia, ubi amplis-
simus ille philosophus Apollonius traditur natus prope oppidum Tyana, stagno effluens
fons cernitur qui magnitudine aquarum inflatus seseque resorbens numquam extra margines
intumescit. D. G. Hogarth ' Modern and ancient roads in eastern Asia Minor' in the
Royal Geographical Society: Supplemeittary Papers 1893 iii. 656 identifies this bubbling
spring with 'the boiling pond near Ekuzli Hissar...still resorted to from far and wide by
all afflicted with skin diseases.' Since the Iupiter Asbamaeus of Ammianus Marcellinus is
the Zeus "OpKLos of Philostratos, S. Bochart Phalegi Lugduni Batavorum—Trajecti ad
Rhenum 1692 p. 535 proposed to derive 'Aa^apaTos from the Hebrew seba, 'oath' {Me-seba
or Me-hasseba, 'aquae juramenti'). C. Lassen in the Zeitschrift der Deutschen morgen-
landischen Gesellschaft 1856 x. 377 attempted to connect it with the Zend and Old Persian
acman, 'heaven,'—a view rightly rejected by P. Carolidis Bemerkungen zu den alien
kleinasiatischen Sprachcn und Mythen Strassburg 1913 p. 38 f. W. Robertson Smith
Lectures on the Religion of the Semites'1 London 1907 p. 182, with much greater probability,
took it to mean the 'seven waters,' in Syriac shab'd may a.
5 Sir VV. M. Ramsay The Historical Geography of Asia Minor {Royal Geographical
Society's Supplementary Papers vol. iv) London 1890 p. 347, id. and D. G. Hogarth
'Prehellenic Monuments of Cappadocia' in the Recueil de Travaux relatifs a la Philologie
et a PArcheologie Egyptiennes et Assyriennes Paris 1893 xiv. 80.
G A. Fick Die ehemalige Spracheinheit der Indogermanen Europas Gottingen 1873
p. 412.
7 Hesych. Bayalos ■.. .rj Tievs Qpi/yLos. p.iyas, iroXvs, rax^s (the last three words are
bracketed by M. Schmidt, but see supra p. 295 n. 2). H. L. Ahrens De dialecto Dorica