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Zeus : a study in ancient religion (1914)

Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 750

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Fig. 533- The axe carried by priests and priestesses 629 not to mention many little votive double axes of the same material(fig. 534, a—dy. P. PerdrizetV indeed, conjectures that Ldbys, theeunuch temple-sweeper sometimes credited with the Delphic maxim Know thyself V was the eponym of the Delphian… … Fig. 534. A good example of the Idbrys surviving for ritual purposes hasrecently been published by Schweitzer^ It is a bronze medallionfrom Smyrna, of the first or second century A.D., now in the Ethno-logical Museum at Munich. On it we see (fig. 535) a man wearinga pointed pilos with chin-band and…

Zeus (Greek deity) · Cults · Sun worship · Classical antiquities · Folk literature

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