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 589

1844 he reached and identified Labranda {Kodja Yaila), describing
his experiences in an enthusiastic letter1 and securing admirable
views and plans of the extant remains (figs. 493 and 494)'2.

Fig- 493-

Later the spot was revisited by Lieut. R. M. Smith, when attached
to Sir C. T. Newton's expedition to Asia Minor (1856—1859).
Newton3 introduces his report as follows :

' The ruins are very finely situated near the summit of the Kodja Yailih
mountains, the ancient Mount Latmus, according to Kiepert. A principal ravine
opens from it down to the valley of Mylasa. "The site is covered with ruins of
massive Hellenic masonry, some of which appear to have been terrace walls. The
most important of these ruins is that of a small distyle temple in antis, consist-
rightly identified them with Euromos, and W. M. Leake Journal of a Tour in Asia
Minor London 1824 p. 231 f. had proposed to see in them the temple of Zeus Eupw^tei/s
(a ' second brass ' of Caracalla, said to bear an archaic effigy of Zeus in a tetrastyle temple
and the legend ZGYC €YPnM6YC £YPCLrA£CLN (Eckhel Doctr. num.vet? ii. 581,
Rasche Lex. Num. iii. 817, 854, Suppl. ii. 915, Head Hist, mini? p. 617) rests upon the
authority of Vaillant and is discredited by J. Schaefer op. cit. p. 362).

1 Reprinted from the Revue Independante 1844 xiv. 535 f. in Lebas—Reinach Voyage
Arch. p. 48.

2 P. Le Bas Voyage archiologique en Grice et en Asie Mineure Paris 1847 Itineraire
pi. 65 ( = my fig. 493), 1858 Architecture Asie Mineure ii pi. 8, 1 ( = myfig. 494), Lebas—
Reinach Voyage Arch. pp. 47 f., 149 Itin. pi. 65 and Archit. ii pi. 8, 1.

3 C. T. Newton A History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus, and Branchidic
London 1863 ii. 2. 613 f.