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)

640 The decoration of the double axe

these markings'had a special religious association1'; and I have
elsewhere2 hazarded the suggestion that they symbolised the

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lightning3. A parallel might be sought in the crossed lines and

Joum. Hell. Stud. 1903 xxiii. 204 fig. 15 (double axes on vase-fragments from
Knossos), supra pp. 518, 521 (double axes on sarcophagus from Hagia Triada), stipra
p. 526 f. fig. 394 (double axes on vase from Pseira), supra p. 538 fig. 407 (double axe on
agate from Knossos), supra p. 623 fig. 525 (double axe on stone mould from Palaikastrd).
Cp. an ivory double axe from the sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at Sparta (R. M. Dawkins
in the Ann. Brit. Sch. Ath. 1906—1907 xiii. 100 f. fig. 31,/". = my fig. 558).

1 Sir A. J. Evans loc. cit. p. 52.

2 Class. Rev. 1903 xvii. 406.

3 On the zigzag representation of lightning among the Greeks and Romans see
T. H. Martin Lafoitdre felectrtcite et le magnetisme chez les anciens Paris 1866 pp. 3966°.,
411 f.