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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

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The axe carried by priests and priestesses 629

not to mention many little votive double axes of the same material
(fig. 534, a—d)\ P. Perdrizet2, indeed, conjectures that Ldbys, the
eunuch temple-sweeper sometimes credited with the Delphic maxim
' Know thyself3,' was the eponym of the Delphian phratry Laby-
ddai*, and that both names should be connected with the words
Labyrinthos and Idbrys.

Fig- 534-

A good example of the Idbrys surviving for ritual purposes has
recently been published by Schweitzer5. It is a bronze medallion
from Smyrna, of the first or second century A.D., now in the Ethno-
logical Museum at Munich. On it we see (fig. 535) a man wearing
a pointed pilos with chin-band and a heavy cloak, who puts incense

1 P. Perdrizet loc. cit. v. 2. 119 ff. figs. 438, 439, 440 ( = my fig. 534, a : length
o-o95m), 441 (=my fig. 534,/': length 0-07'"), 442, 443 (=my fig. 534, c\ length
0-065"'), 444 ( = my fig. 534, d: length of axe-head o-o5m), 445.

2 P. Perdrizet loc. cit. v. r. 4.

3 Schol. Plat. Phileb. 48 c.

4 The Aa/3ud5at are mentioned in Roehl Inscr. Gr. ant. no. 319, 2 (a rock-cut inscrip-
tion at Delphoi) tov Aadv&dav (sic) and in J. Baunack in Collitz—Bechtel Gr. Dial.-
Inschr. ii. 718 ff. no. 2561 = Michel Recueil a"Inscr. gr. no. 995 = Dittenberger Syll. inscr.
Gr.- no. 438 a 3, 7, 10, 19, b 64, 83 f., ioi, 107, d 186, 207 f., 208 f., 214 (an inscription
found at Delphoi, giving regulations for the phratry Labyadai and dating from the close
of s. v b.c.).

5 Schweitzer in the Jahrb. d. kais. deutsch. arch. Inst. 1919 xxxiv Arch. Anz. pp. 38—
49 fig. 1 (=my fig. 535). Diameter of medallion 6'6cm.
 
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