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Zeus : a study in ancient religion - Warburg Institute

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The double axes of Tenedos 655<br />

attractive suggestion that the former is the 'anthropomorphic equi-<br />

valent ' of<br />

the latter.<br />

Fig. • 583 Fig.<br />

Fig. 585-<br />

Fig. 587-<br />

Fig. 588.<br />

584.<br />

Fig. 586.<br />

That the double axe at Tenedos was <strong>in</strong>deed a sacred symbol,<br />

or even the recipient of an actual cult^, appears from the representation<br />

of it on certa<strong>in</strong> remarkable specimens published by<br />

^ My friend and colleague Sir W. Ridgeway <strong>in</strong> his book The Orig<strong>in</strong> of Metallic<br />

f-, 318 ff. argues that the axe on<br />

Currency and Weight Standards Cambridge 1892 pp. 49<br />

co<strong>in</strong>s of Tenedos was ' not religious,' but represented rather ' the local unit of an earlier<br />

epoch.' He shows from //. 23. 850 f., 882 f. (cp. schol. //. 23. 851, Eustath. <strong>in</strong> Od.<br />

p. 1878, 57 ff., Hesych. s.vv. rj/juiriXeKKov, ireXeKvi, and 7re[X^/ce/as] <strong>in</strong> a Cypriote <strong>in</strong>scrip-<br />

tion from Idalion pr<strong>in</strong>ted by W. Deecke <strong>in</strong> Collitz—Bechtel Gr. Dial.-Jnschr. i. 27 ff.

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