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)

The decoration of the double axe 651

in the collection formed by Count Gozzadini (fig. 578)1. The gong
as a rule is solid-cast, though one example is made of two thin

. Fig. 579.

plates of bronze soldered at the edges so as to enclose an empty

1 Matiriaux pour Phistoire primitive et naturelh de Vhomme 1874 ix. 289 figs. 105
and 106, G. Cotteau Le Pre'historique en Europe Paris 1889 p. 79, L. Pigorini in the
Bullettino dipaletnologia italiana 1890 xvi. 62 fig. ( = my fig. 578: scale |)t