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)

648 The decoration of the double axe

into mere pendants (fig. 570)1, and in the passage developed further
features of magical potency. For instance, projecting lugs became,
under the influence of a favourite Hallstatt motif'2, a pair of swan-

heads or duck-heads—witness one of the twenty-three little votive
axes from Dodona (fig. 571)3 or a more elaborate specimen at

1 M. Hoernes Urgeschichte der bildenden Kimst in Europa Wien 1898 p. 440 ff. pi. 10,
19 ( = my fig. 570) from Austria.

I add, for comparison's sake, figs. 573, 574, which represent two axe-pendants of
bronze, from Benin, now in the collection of Mr C. H. C. Visick. Scale \.

Fig- 573- Fig. 574.

2 M. Hoernes op. cit.1 pp. 488—498 ('Vogelfiguren'), 519^, id. op. cit.2 Wien 1915
p. 524 f., J. Dechelette op. cit. ii. 1. 419—426 ('La barque solaire et les cygnes hyper-
boreens en Scandinavie '), 426—444 (' Les cygnes et les symboles solaires en Italie, dans
l'Europe centrale et la Gaule').

3 C. Carapanos Dodone et ses mines Paris 1878 pp. 100, 235 f. pi. 54, 6 ( = my fig. 571).