Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

The double axe and Zeus Lahrdyndos 575
crowned caps of the Dioskouroi (fig. 480)^ Early imperial coppers
of the same town omit the caps", but sometimes give the cult-statue
in more detail together with an eagle (fig. 481)* or a stag^ At
Keramos a copper of Antoninus Pius shows a long-haired god,
apparent!}' nude (?), standing to the right with a double axe in his
Fig. 478. Fig- 479- Fig. 480.
Fig. 481. . Fig. 482. Fig. 483.
right hand and a tall sceptre or spear in his left : behind him is a
lion (fig. 482)1 A later variant, struck by Commodus, has the same
god, clad in a short chiton, with the axe in his left hand, the sceptre
or spear in his right, and behind him an animal of ver)^ doubtful
species— possibly a lioness or panther (fig. 483)''. Another copper
' Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Caria, etc. p. 99 pi. 17, 4 (=:my fig. 480) EVPH M[EnN]
with obv. youthful head of Dionysos, 5 obv. EVPHM EflN and TTOAE (magistrate's
name) Stag standing to light with Idbrys in front of it (symbol).
- Brit. Mils. Cat. Coins Caria, etc. p. 100 pi. 17, 6.
' Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins (Zz.x\2,, etc. p. loopl. i7,8( = myfig. 481) Augustus and Livia.
* Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Caria, etc. p. 100 no. 6, of early imperial times, with rev.
eVPflMenN eagle on thunderbolt.
^ J. Friedlaender in the Zeitschr. f. Num. 1875 ii. 109 f. fig. ( = my fig. 482). The
inscription, as B. V. Head in the Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Caria, etc. p. 78 n.* points out,
'is almost certainly wrong.'
® Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Caiia., etc. p. 78 pi. 12, 13 (=:my fig. 483): 'an animal re-
sembling a goat recumbent with fore-foot raised'...' The animal at the feet of the god on
this coin resembles a goat or stag.'