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616 The double axe in the East
bearer of the red relief-ware is the Hellenised form of an originally
Hittite sky-god. If so, we shall best call him Zeus.
Strabon1 in his account of Kappadokia states that next to the
king in importance ranked the priest of Ma at Komana, the priest of
Zeus at Venasa, and the priest of Zeus Dakienos. The appellative of
the latter Zeus is connected by P. Carolidis2 with the Armenian word
daku, 'an axe3,' and taken to mean 'the Axe-bearer.'
Less probable is Carolidis' contention4 that Zeus Genetahs5,
1 Strab. 536 f. ev 8e rrj ~Mopip.rjvrj to iepbv tov iv Oxn-vdaois Atos, iepoSovXiov KaToiKiav
exov Tpio~xi-XLwv trx^bv ti kcll \u>pav iepdv exjKaprrov, 7rape'xova'av rrpbaoSov (viavaiov to.X6.vtwv
irevTeKaib'eKa tQ leper teal ovrds eari 81a fiLov, Ka.66.irep teal 6 iv JZopidvois (cp. Strab. 535),
Kal Sevrepevei Kara tl/j.t)v per' e~Kelvov. rplry] 8' iariv iepwavvrj Aids AaKirjvov (T. Tyrwhitt cj.
Aa.Kt.riov or AaKtr/vov for Aa/a?? oil. A. Koraes accepted AaKir/vov. P. Carolidis thinks that
the title was AaKLrjs or Ad/cto?; but see F. de Saussure ' Les noms grecs en -rjvbs et le
phrygien' in E. Chantre Mission en Cappadore i8gj—1$94 Paris 1898 pp. 185—191)
Xei.Trop.evri ravrrjs, d^toXoyos 8' opuos. ivravda S earl X&kkos dXpLvpou vdaros, d^ioXbyov
XipLvr/s ixwv Trepi/xeTpov, dcppvo-i KXeibp.evos viprjXah re ko.1 opdLais, (liar ^xeLV Ka.rafia.o~iv
KXipaKudrj- to 8' vSwp ovt av^eadai (pacriv, oiir drrbpfwiv ixeLV ov8ap.ov <pavepdv. The
reconstitution of the text is due to G. Kramer, who suggested that rp'-Ti)—(pavepdv should
be transposed so as to follow ev 8e—eneTvov. With the salt pool of Zeus AaKtr/vbs cp. the
salt water of Zeus 'Oaoywa (supra p. 581 ff.). P. Carolidis Die sogen. Assyro-Chaldaer
und Hittiten von Kleinasien Athen 1898 p. 67 n. would identify the cult-centre of Zeus
AaKir-vbs with the modern Ilgin. Axes in jadeite and bronze have been found in the tell
of Kara-Euyuk (E. Chantre op. cit. p. 78 f. figs. 56—59).
2 P. Carolidis Bemerkunge?i zu de?i alten kleinasiatischen Sprachen und Mythen
Strassburg i. E. 1913 p- 55 f.
3 Akin to our word dagger (Boisacq Diet. etym. de la Langue Gr. p. 343 f., Walde
Lat. etym. Worterb.2 p. 290).
4 P. Carolidis op. cit. p. 56 Zeus Yevf)rr)s (sic), p. 62 Zeus Vever-qs (sic) with a wrong
reference to Ap. Rhod. r. 1032 (? Nonn. Dion. 9. X47 Atos yevkrao).
r° Ap. Rhod. 2. 1009 Tev-qraiov Albs &Kpr)v, Val. Flacc. 5. 147 inde Genetaei rupem
(so A. Poliziano for indigena et aerupem cod. V.) lovis.
bearer of the red relief-ware is the Hellenised form of an originally
Hittite sky-god. If so, we shall best call him Zeus.
Strabon1 in his account of Kappadokia states that next to the
king in importance ranked the priest of Ma at Komana, the priest of
Zeus at Venasa, and the priest of Zeus Dakienos. The appellative of
the latter Zeus is connected by P. Carolidis2 with the Armenian word
daku, 'an axe3,' and taken to mean 'the Axe-bearer.'
Less probable is Carolidis' contention4 that Zeus Genetahs5,
1 Strab. 536 f. ev 8e rrj ~Mopip.rjvrj to iepbv tov iv Oxn-vdaois Atos, iepoSovXiov KaToiKiav
exov Tpio~xi-XLwv trx^bv ti kcll \u>pav iepdv exjKaprrov, 7rape'xova'av rrpbaoSov (viavaiov to.X6.vtwv
irevTeKaib'eKa tQ leper teal ovrds eari 81a fiLov, Ka.66.irep teal 6 iv JZopidvois (cp. Strab. 535),
Kal Sevrepevei Kara tl/j.t)v per' e~Kelvov. rplry] 8' iariv iepwavvrj Aids AaKirjvov (T. Tyrwhitt cj.
Aa.Kt.riov or AaKtr/vov for Aa/a?? oil. A. Koraes accepted AaKir/vov. P. Carolidis thinks that
the title was AaKLrjs or Ad/cto?; but see F. de Saussure ' Les noms grecs en -rjvbs et le
phrygien' in E. Chantre Mission en Cappadore i8gj—1$94 Paris 1898 pp. 185—191)
Xei.Trop.evri ravrrjs, d^toXoyos 8' opuos. ivravda S earl X&kkos dXpLvpou vdaros, d^ioXbyov
XipLvr/s ixwv Trepi/xeTpov, dcppvo-i KXeibp.evos viprjXah re ko.1 opdLais, (liar ^xeLV Ka.rafia.o~iv
KXipaKudrj- to 8' vSwp ovt av^eadai (pacriv, oiir drrbpfwiv ixeLV ov8ap.ov <pavepdv. The
reconstitution of the text is due to G. Kramer, who suggested that rp'-Ti)—(pavepdv should
be transposed so as to follow ev 8e—eneTvov. With the salt pool of Zeus AaKtr/vbs cp. the
salt water of Zeus 'Oaoywa (supra p. 581 ff.). P. Carolidis Die sogen. Assyro-Chaldaer
und Hittiten von Kleinasien Athen 1898 p. 67 n. would identify the cult-centre of Zeus
AaKir-vbs with the modern Ilgin. Axes in jadeite and bronze have been found in the tell
of Kara-Euyuk (E. Chantre op. cit. p. 78 f. figs. 56—59).
2 P. Carolidis Bemerkunge?i zu de?i alten kleinasiatischen Sprachen und Mythen
Strassburg i. E. 1913 p- 55 f.
3 Akin to our word dagger (Boisacq Diet. etym. de la Langue Gr. p. 343 f., Walde
Lat. etym. Worterb.2 p. 290).
4 P. Carolidis op. cit. p. 56 Zeus Yevf)rr)s (sic), p. 62 Zeus Vever-qs (sic) with a wrong
reference to Ap. Rhod. r. 1032 (? Nonn. Dion. 9. X47 Atos yevkrao).
r° Ap. Rhod. 2. 1009 Tev-qraiov Albs &Kpr)v, Val. Flacc. 5. 147 inde Genetaei rupem
(so A. Poliziano for indigena et aerupem cod. V.) lovis.