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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674 The double axes of Tenedos

head (figs. 608, 609)1. One specimen, in the British Museum, gives
the male face a snub nose and a pointed ear, thereby imparting a
Satyric character to the head (fig. 610)2. Another, at Paris, turns the
profile into a full face with broad nose (fig. 611)3. This very curious
treatment suggests that the god is Bes, who—unlike the general run
of Egyptian deities—commonly appears en face*. The suggestion is

Fig. 611. Fig. 612. Fig. 613.

strengthened by a third specimen, also at Paris, which shows a
bearded head with a mask of Bes attached to the back of it (fig. 612)5.
It is possible too that both god and goddess stood in some relation
to the lion; for the obverse of the first Parisian coin has two bearded
heads surmounted by two lion-heads with lion-skins depending on
either side (fig. 611), and the reverse of yet another Parisian coin

1 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Palestine pp. lxxxiii ff., 176 f. pi. 19, 1—3, 7, p. 179 pi. 19,
20, Hunter Cat. Coins iii. 282 pi. 77, 30, Babelon Monn. gr. rom. ii. 2. 645 ff. pi. 123,
10, 11 f., 13 ( = my fig. 608), 14, p. 651 ff. pi. 123, 25, Head Hist, num? p. 805. Fig. 609
is from a specimen in the McClean collection at Cambridge. These coins are all drachms
of Attic weight. As to their types, the owl and its accompanying inscription are certainly
derived from Athenian originals modified to suit local requirements (J. P. Six in the
Num. Chron. New Series 1877 xvii. 231, Babelon op. cit. ii. 2. 645 f., G. F. Hill in the
Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Palestine p. lxxxiv). The Janiform head has been referred to that
of Lampsakos (Babelon op. cit. ii. 2. 645 f.), or to that of an Athenian trihemiobol
(G. F. Hill loc. cit. p. lxxxiv f.): but both at Lampsakos and at Athens the double head
is beardless.

2 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Palestine p. 181 pi. 19, 30 ( = my fig. 610).

3 Babelon Monn. gr. rom. ii. 2. 657 f. pi. 124, 7 ( = my fig. 611).

4 K. Sethe in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. iii. 325.

5 Babelon Monn. gr. rom. ii. 2. 659 f. pi. 124, 11 ( = my fig. 612).