Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

The double axe and Zeus Labrdyndos 573
Euromos^ and Stratonikeia^ At Mylasa the handle of the Idbrys is
encircled by a bay-wreath (fig. 472)^ ; at Euromos the whole axe is
similarly treated^ At Aphrodisias (fig. 473)^ and at Herakleia Salbake
it is bound with a fillet". Again, at Aphrodisias it has two
filleted palm-branches laid across its handle (fig. 474)'. That the axe
thus characterised as a sacred object was in Hellenic times associated
Fig. 470. Fig. 472. Fig- 473- Fig. 474-
with Zeus appears, not only from a unique bronze coin of Plarasa
{s. iii or ii B.C.), which has on the one side a head of Zeus long-haired
and laureate, on the other an eagle standing on a double axe^ but
also from numerous Carian issues, which show the god grasping his
traditional weapon. On silver pieces struck by the satraps Hekatomnos
(395— 377 E.G.)**, MaussoUos (377—353 B.C.)^", Idrieus (351—
Si/XXtoj' in Kibyratis rather than that from 2/\Xuos in Pamphylia :
weder als pamphylisches noch als pisidisches Miinzbild bekannt.'
* Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Caria, etc. p. 99 pi. 17, 5 oi s.\ B.C.
' Uas Doppelbeil ist
2 Imhoof-Blumer Monti, gr. p. 315 no. 79, id. Kleinas. Miinzen i. 153 no. 8 n. with
magistrate's name 'Api