Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

The double axe and Zeus Labrdyndos 565
holds grape-bunches and corn-ears\ had on Lydian soil come to be
regarded as
Kore.
Dionysos- and had passed on his axe to Demeter and
What happened in Lydia, happened with some variation in
Phrygia also. The Idbrys alone occurs on coppers of Eriza* and
Eumeneia''. On others of Abbaitis it is surrounded by a bay-wreath
Fig- 453- Fig- 454- Fig. 455.
(fig. 453)^ At Hierapolis some specimens show its handle bound
with a fillet (fig. 454)^ or twined about with a snake''—a design
known earlier at Eumeneia (fig. 45 5)^ Other very remarkable coins
of Hierapolis represent the double axe erect on a two-stepped base
with its handle encircled by the snake and surmounted by a radiate
head (figs. 456—458)^ The axe-bearing rider is of frequent occur-
in W. V. Diest Nysa ad Maeandrum [Jahrb. d. kais. deutsch. arch. Inst. Erganzungsheft
x) Berlin 1913 p. 86 no. 145 pi. 13, 145 Maximinus.
1 Supra i. 594 f. fig. 453.
^ A good collection of data for the worship of Dionysos in Lydia will be found in W.
Quandt De Baccho ab Alexandri aetate in Asia Minore culto Halis Saxonum 1913
pp. 175— r88, 191 f. That the Lydian Dionysos had some Hittite(?) prototype may perhaps
be inferred from Steph. Byz. s.v. Mdo-roupa- 7r6Xts AuSi'as, atro Mas. Ma 5e rj'P^^t el'Trero,
r\ irapeSuiKe Zei)? Ai.6vv77. Kol Trapa Kapfflv 6 At6vv(Tos Mdcrapis ^vdev iKKrjdr). fKoKeiTo Se Kal i] 'Pea Ma
Kai ravpos airy idvero wapa Av5ois, a. 51 ( = y fig- 456)» T. Panofka Asklepios iind dit
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