Ancient Greek Bronze Museum Statue Replica of Double Axe of Crete (1258) Ancient Greek Bronze Museum Statue Replica Of Double Axe Of Crete From Minoan Era Dimensions: 16x9 cm 6,3in x 3,54in Material: BRONZE Color: MUSEUM OXIDIGATION Labrys ( in Greek, lbrys) is the term for a symmetrical double headed axe originally from Crete in Greece, one of the oldest symbols of Greek civilization; to the Romans, it was known as a bipennis. The double-bitted axe remains a forestry tool to this day, and the labrys certainly functioned as a tool and hewing axe before it was invested with symbolic function.Labrys symbolism is found in Minoan, Thracian, and Greek religion, mythology, and art, dating from the Middle Bronze Age onwards, and surviving in the Byzantine Empire.