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)

638 The decoration of the double axe

diminutive double axe of electrum (fig. 5 52)1, dark electrum pin-
heads showing a ball on a plinth composed of four double axes2,
earrings of electrum3, and a bead of gold4 embellished with double
axes. Further, in view of the fact that the word labrys is Lydian5,
it is interesting to note that a hoard of jewelry found in 1878 near

Fig- 553-

Tralleis (At din) in Lydia6 and referable to the seventh century B.C.7
contains numerous double axes made of thin gold plate. They are
decorated with rosettes, circles, and dots (fig. 553). One piece,
shaped like a single axe with a semicircular perforated blade8, has

1 D. G. Hogarth Excavations at Ephesus London 1908 p. 103 pi. 5, 34 ( = my fig. 552).

2 Id. ib. p. 101 pi. 6, 15 and 29, pi. 10, 47.

3 Id. ib. p. 103 f. pi. 6, 58 f., pi. 10, 38 and 46.

4 Id. ib. p. 114 pi. 7, 37. 5 Supra p. 560.

6 A. Dumont in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1879 iii- I29 f- pis. 4—5 (inadequate), W.
Frcehner Collection H. Hoffmann Paris 1886 pi. 20 (better), Perrot—Chipiez Hist, de
VArt v. 294 ff. figs. 203 ( = my fig. 554), 204, 206 ( = my fig. 553).

7 See A. Furtwangler in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 1767, F. H. Marshall in the Brit.
Mtts. Cat. Jezuellery p. xxiv.

8 Cp. supra p. 620 ff.