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)

614 The double axe and other forms of

Christian monogram f1, so the double axe, symbol of the Anatolian
Zeus, could be easily transformed into the Christian monograms

% >|<2. It was by no accident that Constantine in his labarum
combined the token of the god supreme in the west with that of the
god supreme in the east, thus linking Iupiter with Zeus under the
name of One greater than either.

(k) The double axe and other forms of Zeus in the East.

Zeus Labrdyndos was by no means the only god that in Asia
Minor armed himself with the primeval thunder-weapon, Of Zeus

Fig. 512.

Dolichaios or Iupiter Dolichemis I have already spoken at length3.
Another semi-oriental form of Zeus appears on red relief-ware of
the seventh century B.C. found in Rhodes and Karia. A fragment

1 Supra p. 601 f.
3 Supra i. 604—633.

2 Supra p. 603 f.