Universitätsbibliothek HeidelbergUniversitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
Metadaten

Cook, Arthur B.
Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 3,2): Zeus god of the dark sky (earthquake, clouds, wind, dew, rain, meteorits) — Cambridge, 1940

DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.14699#0199

DWork-Logo
Overview
Facsimile
0.5
1 cm
facsimile
Scroll
OCR fulltext
Addenda

1141

ii. 587 n. 7. C. Picard in the Revue de riiistoirc des religions 1926 xciii. 73 n. 2
doubts the equation TriXeuvs = balag, citing C. Autran 'La Grece et l'Orient ancien' in
Babyloniaca 1924 viii. 185 n. 1 ('balag dont le sens probable est bien plutot de lyre, ou
harpe'), id. Sume'rien et Indo-europien Paris 1925 p. iv n. 1. Further literature on this
disputed question is noted by A. Nehring 'Studien zur indogermanischen Kultur und
Urheimat' in the Wiener Beitriige zur Ktdturgeschichte und Linguistik 1936 iv. 31 n. 11.

ii. 594 pectoral ornament (?). In favour of such a TrpoffTijOidiov see also W. Miiller in
the Rom. Mitth. 1919 xxxir. 93 ff., C. Picard Ephese et Claros Paris 1922 p. 529 ff., id.
in the Revue de Phistoire des religions 1926 xciii. 73 n. 1, and especially G. Furlani
'Ornamenti astrali e corazze di dei dell' Asia anteriore antica' in Studi e materiali di
storia delle religioni 1931 vii. 43 ff.

ii. 594 the temple of Athena Alia. C. Dugas—J. Berchmans—M. Clemmensen Le
sanctuaire d'Alia Athtna a Te'gie au iv6 siecle Paris 1924 i. 1—144 with 41 figs, and
ii Atlas of 116 pis.

ii. 600f. The double axe and the Labyrinth. R. Ganszyniec 'Labrys' in Pauly—
Wissowa Real-Ene. xii. 286—307 gives a well-arranged and interesting survey of the
facts. Humborg ib. xii. 314 f. and G. Karo ib. xii. 321 deal with Xd/Spus and Xa/3t}pti*c9os.
G. Dumezil 'AABPT2' in the Journal asiatique 1929 ccxv. 237—252 derives Xd/3pus and
its congeners ('Tasianique et egeen Xa/3pu-, Xa/3up-, Xa/Sp-') from a pre-Greek word which
he connects witli the classical and modern Georgian lahvari, 'lance.' Early Georgian
lances, preserved in churches and museums, have a bifurcated blade. In Mingrelia they
are regularly taken to be the arms of St George, who mounted on horseback attacks
evil spirits issuing from the sea with his double lance (' il leur porte des coups avec sa
lance; chacun de ces coups s'accompagne du tonnerre que nous entendons, et fait jaillir
des etincelles, qui sont l'eclair'). Dumezil views the double lance lahvari as the lineal
successor of the double axe Xd/Spus, the essential point being its twofold blade ('force
redoublee? perfection? union des sexes?')—a convincing conclusion. PI. Giintert 'Laby-
rinth. Eine sprachwissenschaftliche Untersuchung' in the Sitzungsber. d. Heidelb. Akad.
d. Wiss. Phil.-hist. Classe 1932/3 Abh. i. 1—49 would relate AapupipOos to Xa/as 'stone,'
and takes ~\&f3pvs as 'Steinbeil.' But his contentions are traversed by P. Kretschmer in
Glotta 1934 xxii. 252 f. ('Diese Etymologie scheitert daran, dass AafSijpivdos, XdjSpus,
Aafipavvdos immer nur mit f3, \apas dagegen nur mit v bezeugt ist, die Bed. " Stein" an
die Form mit v gekniipft ist'). See further C. Picard ' Les origines du Labyrinthe' in the
Rev. Arch. 1939 i. 264^

ii. 601. H. J. Rose in The Hibbert Journal 1927 xxv. 380 thinks that I am here
confusing the Quinquennalia of Maxentius, i.e. the celebration of the fifth year of his
reign, with the quinquennial agon Capitolinus of Domitian, which had ceased to exist
centuries before Maxentius was born. But the Quinquennalia of Maxentius would have
fallen in 311, not 312. Also, Lactantius states that the Quinquennalia in question were
ending and that Maxentius' day had not yet come. He is probably alluding to the ludi
Capitolini, which were still being held (G. Wissowa in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Ene. iii.
1528, L. C. Purser in Smith—Wayte—Slarindin Diet. Ant. ii. 86). I adhere therefore
to my view as expressed in the text.

ii. 607 E. Conybeare's suggestion that the labarum was derived from the la'brys. The
same solution of the problem was reached independently by E. Harrison, who however—
so far as I know—did not publish it.

H. Gregoire 'L'etymologie de "Labarum"' in Byzantion 1927—1928 iv. 477—482
comes to the following conclusion: ' La laurea en or qui enferme le Chrisme est l'element
caracteristique du sublime etendard decore en outre des images lauries des pieux em-
peieurs. De meme qu'on disait le dragon ou Vaigle, draco, aquila, pour l'etendard
surmonte du dragon ou de l'aigle, on a du qualifier le nouveau vexillum a la couronne
d'un nom derive de laurea. Et, de meme que le labarum n'est qu'une variante du
lauraium, laureum n'est qu'une variante de laureatum.'

ii. 613 the hidden meaning of knife or double axe. R. Eisler drew my attention
(Oct. 14, 1908) to the small axe received by the Essenes when admitted to the order
(Ioseph. de bell. Iud. 2. 8. 9 rais 8' aXXais rjp.(pa^ fibdpov dpvauovTa fSddos ttoSkuoc ttj
(TKaXfSt, tolovtov yap ecri to oibbp.tvov vir' avTwv 6.^lvl5lov rots veoavararois, kcli irepiKokv^p-
avTes doLfiartov, cos p.7) rds avyas vfiplgoiev rod deou, OaKebovaiv ets avrbv. k.t.X.).

ii. 613 Simias' poem on the axe of Epeios. W. Deonna 'Les "poemes figures'" in the
Revue de philologie de littirature et d'histoire anciennes 1926 1. 187—193 ('II s'agit d'un
procede instinctif et universel, ancien et moderne, europeen ou oriental, qui n'a qu'une
intention: resumer en quelque sorte par une image le sens du texte ecrit, donner de
 
Annotationen