An ornamented golden Minoan double axe, often spuriously called a labrysBronze Age axe from the tholos tombs of Messara in CreteCoinage of Idrieus of Caria, Obv: Head of Apollo, wearing laurel wreath, drapery at neck; Rev: legend ΙΔΡΙΕΩΣ ("IDRIEOS"), Zeus Labraundos standing with labrys in his right hand, c. 351–350 to 344–343 BCE[1]
Labrys (Greek: λάβρυς, romanized: lábrys) is, according to Plutarch (Quaestiones Graecae 2.302a), the Lydian word for the double-bittedaxe. In Greek it was called πέλεκυς (pélekys). The plural of labrys is labryes (λάβρυες).
