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 double axes of Tenedos 655

attractive suggestion that the former is the 'anthropomorphic equi-
valent ' of the latter.

Fig. 588.

That the double axe at Tenedos was indeed a sacred symbol,
or even the recipient of an actual cult1, appears from the repre-
sentation of it on certain remarkable specimens published by

1 My friend and colleague Sir W. Ridgeway in his book The Origin of Metallic
Currency and Weight Standards Cambridge 1892 pp. 49 f., 318 ff. argues that the axe on
coins of Tenedos was ' not religious,' but represented rather ' the local unit of an earlier
epoch.' He shows from //. 23. 850 f., 882 f. (cp. schol. //. 23. 851, Eustath. in Od.
p. 1878, 57 ff., Hesych. s.vv. rjixiiriXeKKov, ireXexvs, and 7re[A^/ce/as] in a Cypriote inscrip-
tion from Idalion printed by W. Deecke in Collitz—Bechtel Gr. Dial.-Jnschr. i. 27 ff.