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)

624 The axe carried by priests and priestesses

elude a couple of ornate double axes, large and small, with multiple
blades (fig. 525); a pair of ritual horns (fig. 526); a large disk
resembling a four-spoked wheel decorated with dots and rays (the
sun?); a small disk, with central cross, two concentric rows of dots,

Fig. 526.

and a crescent between them (the moon and stars ?), apparently
carried by a little female figure1, since a head with rayed head-dress
is seen above and a wide-spread skirt (?) below a female uplifting

Fig- 527-

flowers or poppy-stalks (?) in either hand, while another flower
springs from her flat head-dress (fig. 527); and lastly a similar
female raising a brace of decorated double axes (fig. 528). The two

Stud, e mat. di arch, e num. i. 176, R. C. Bosanquet in the Ann. Brit. Sch. Ath. 1901—
1902 viii. 299 f., Sir A. J. Evans ib. 1902—1903 ix. 92 f., G. Karo in the Archiv /■ Rel.
1904 vii. 145 ff. figs. 27—30.

1 G. Karo in the Archiv f. Rel. 1904 vii. 147 ' dariiber gleichsam Schadel und Arme
eines Skeletts [!], unten ein weiter Frauenrock.'