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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roundels ornamented with the heads of rams and bulls, two heads

Fig- 554-

of griffins, two starry disks, and an
archaic female figure flanked by
lines of zig-zags (fig. 554). Lastly,
a gold hair-pin from the necro-
polis of Koban takes the form of
an axe with recurved blade, the
socket of which is adorned with
a little group representing a stag,
attacked by two hounds (fig. 5 55)2.

Sir Arthur Evans draws atten-
tion to the fact that the double
axe in ' Minoan ' art is frequently
adorned with diagonals and zig-
zags (fig. 556)2. He contends that

1 N. Kondakof—J. Tolstoi—S. Reinach
Antiquitcs dc la Russie miridionah Paris
1891 p. 459 fig. 402 ( = my rig. 555: on a
reduced scale).

2 Sir A. J. Evans in the Ann. Brit. Sch.
Ath. 1900—1901 vii. 53 fig. 15 ( = my fig. 556,
cp. M. Hoernes Urgeschichte der bildenden
Knnst in Europa1 Wien 1915 p. 515 fig. 2:
(a) Double axe on vase-fragment; (b) Bronze
votive double axe from Dictaean Cave;
(c) Bronze votive double axe from Dictaean
Cave, with right wing restored ; (d) Double
axe on cornelian from Kaboiczi, enlarged).
For other examples see D. Mackenzie in the