Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

The double axe and Zeus Lahrdyndos 585
had gone further in the same direction by supposing the original
vocative to have been * Potei Das, 'Lord (Husband) of the Earth-
goddess \' and thence forming the new nominatives Potidds, Poteiddzvofj,
etc. This is phonetically unimpeachable. But so also is my
Potei-Ddn, etc., 'Lord Zeus.' And on the whole it seems to me more
likely that the god was named in his own right than in virtue of his
relation to the goddess.
Zeus Strdtios of Labranda bore a local appellative, which is
spelled in very diverse ways. Kretschmer^ has compiled a list of a
dozen variants Labrdyjidos^ {^g. 492), Lainbrdyndos^, Labraiiyndos^,
hom. Ilat^wj' dor. natdi','Ep,ada)i''Ep/idv. Es scheint nun, dass in der Zusammenriickung
beide Vokativformen, die alte *7r6ret und die jiingere *7r6Ti, neben einander gebraucht
wurden.' Etc.
^ On AS as an ancient pet-name {'' Lalhiamen'') of the earth-goddess see P. Kretschmer
' Demeter' in the Wiener Stiidien 1902 xxiv. 523 ff.
- P. Kretschmer Eitileitting in die Geschichte der Griechischen Sprache Gottingen
1896 p. 303.
^ Ao/3pdiiV5os in inscriptions from Mylasa (A. Hauvette-Besnault—M. Dubois in the
Bull. Corr. Hell. 1881 v. 98 ff. no. 2, 10 f. quoted supra p. 578 n. 4 no. (3). W. Judeich
in the Ath. Mitth. 1890 xv. 261 f. no. 15, 3 f. ['E]ffar6AtJ'ws OyXtdSoi; [te]p€[i;']s A[v Trpecrl [/SJuroii' tov Ata tov \
virapxbvrwv a dedication of imperial date. Eid. ib. 1895
Aa^pavvdui with
cxxxii. 2. 19 no. i a marble slab inscribed Aij^Tjrpios koX 'Ep/xias Ad \
an axe in relief below the inscription), from Halikarnassos (G. Hirschfeld The Collection
of Ancient Greek Inscriptions in the British Museum Oxford 1893 iv. i. 79 f. no. 904
a small marble altar, found near Budrum, inscribed in lettering of a good period Aio.j [
Aa^paiivdov), from Herakleia at the foot of Mt Latmos (R. Chandler hiscriptiones antiquae
Oxonii 1774 p. 18 Pars i no. 49, Corp. inscr. Gr. ii no. 2896 two stones marked
with the double axe and inscribed Aios |
Aa^pavvdov,
found in an island near Baf on
the lake of Herakleia (map in Milet iii. i at end)), and even from the Peiraieus, where
the god had a thiasos {Corp. inscr. Att. ii. i no. 613, Michel Recueil d'Inscr. gr. no. 977,
of the year 299—298 B.C., in praise of Menis, son of Mnesitheos, of Herakleia, who has
done well by the worshippers and sanctuary of Zeus Labrdyndos, 5 ff. koI rb re TrpocrTwiov
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