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)

636 The decoration of the double axe

Troy have been recognised by S. Reinach as cult-objects1: it
might even be held that they were made of lapis lazuli, jadeite,
etc. just because the colours of these stones were deemed suitable
to the belongings of a sky-god.

Again, a perforated axe of amber, nearly five inches long, from

Fig- 549- Fig- 55°-

Bohuslan (fig. 548) is described by O. Montelius as a symbolic or
votive weapon2. The same might be said of a smaller specimen
discovered by A. Pasqui in a grave of the Early Iron Age at
Bisenzio3. Amber beads in the form of double axes and hammers
(figs. 549, 550) have frequently come to light in the long barrows of

1 S. Reinach in U Anthropologic 1902 xiii. 24, cp. Folk-Lore 1903 xiv. 283 n. 1.

2 O. Montelius Kulturgeschichte Schwedens Leipzig 1906 p. 56 fig. 91 ( = my fig. 548 :
scale |), Forrer Reallex. p. 88, cp. B. Schnittger in Hoops Reallex. p. 260.

3 A. Pasqui in the Not. Scavi 1886 p. 292 (' una piccola ascia di ambra, forata nell'
occhio, lunga mm. 25 e larga al taglio mm. 20 '), L. Pigorini in the Bullettino di paletno-
logia italiana 1890 xvi. 75, M. Hoernes Urgeschichte der bildenden Kanst in Europa
Wien 1898 p. 471 f., id. ib? Wien 1915 p. 514.