Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

564 The double axe and Zeus Labrdyndos
(fig. 447)^ Again, at Mostene^ and at Tabala (fig. 448)^ as at
Thyateira^, he wears a rayed crown. But he is never accompanied
by a name, so that we cannot say whether he represents Tyrimnos
or, as is more probable, the hero of the immediate neighbourhood.
In any case he is a hero on his way to becoming a god. Indeed,
he is apparently identified with Apollon at Hypaipa, where he
adopts the guise of Apollon Tyrimnos (fig. 449y. We have, how-
ever, reason to think that the Lydians sometimes brought their
Idbrys into connexion with a goddess. At Mostene, where the hero
Fig. 449. Fig. 450. Fig. 451. Fig. 452.
stood in some relation to a sacred cypress^, imperial coppers show
a goddess (Demeter?), with kdlathos and long chiton, holding two
corn-ears in her right hand and a double axe in her left (fig. 450)'
or else they show the axe alone between a bunch of grapes and
two ears of corn (fig. 45 1)^ And at Nysa a copper of Maximinus
represents a goddess (Kore Y), with chiton and himdtion, who has a
snake (?) in her right hand and leans her left arm on a double axe
(fig. 452)". These types suggest that the Hittite god, who at Ivriz
1 Brit. Mus. Cat. Govts Lydia pp. Ixxvi, 164 no. 15 Gallienus, Hunter Cat. Coins ii.
458 pi. 55, 24 ( = my fig. 447), Imhoof-Blumer Monn. gr. p. 387 no. 20 Marcus Aurelius,
no. 21 Commodus.
2 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lydia p. 162 pi. 17, 10 time of Commodus (?), p. 163 pi. 17,
12 ( = my fig. 446) Lucius Verus, p. 163 pi. 17, i3(?) Lucilla, p. 163 no. 13 Commodus,
p. 164 nos. 15, 16, 17
p. 102 no. 8, p. 103 f.
pi. 17, 14 Gallienus, F. Imhoof-Blumer Lydische Stadtmiinzen
^ Brit. Mus. Cat. Coijis Lydia p, 289 pi. 28, 12 Commodus, cp. p. 291 no. 15 Severus
Alexander, F. Imhoof-Blumer op. cit. p. 146 pi. 6, 3 ( = my fig. 448).
* Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lydia p. 308 no. 89 (?) Septimius Severus, p. 315 no. 122
Severus Alexander, p. 318 no. 137 Maximinus, Hunter Cat. Coins ii. 471 no. 20 Maximinus,
F. Imhoof-Blumer op. cit. pp. 151, 153 no. 19, 155 pi. 6, 13, 159 pi. 6, 17 ( = my
% 443)> pl- 6, 18. Supra p. 562.
^ Imhoof-Blumer Kleinas. Miinzen i. 173 no. i pi. 6, 5 ( = my fig. 449) Sabina.
^ Supra p. 563 n. 7 and p. 564 n. I.
' Brit. Mils. Cat. Cwwj Lydia p. 161 pi. 17, 9 ( = my fig. 450) 'Hadrian to the Anto-
nines,' F. Imhoof-Blumer Lydische Stadtmiinzen p. loi pi. 4, 18 'Aus der Zeit des
Traian oder Hadrian.'
8 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Lydia p. 162 pi. 17, n ( = my fig. 451) Sabina, F. Imhoof-
Blumer op. cit. p. 102 no. 7 Sabina, p. 104. Infra § 3 (c) i (0) init.
» F. Imhoof-Blumer op. cit. p. no pi. 4, 21 {==my fig. 452) Maximinus, K. Regling