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Minoan gold votive double axe or labrys. On the left blade is an inscription in undeciphered Linear A; posssibly an invocation to the goddess Demeter.^[1]

Labrys (Greek: λάβρυς, romanized: lábrys) is, according to Plutarch (Quaestiones Graecae 2.302a), the Lydian word for the double-bitted axe. In Greek it was called πέλεκυς (pélekys). The plural of labrys is labryes (λάβρυες).

^ "Votive double ax". Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

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