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Upon receiving this precious, purely ritual axe, the Carians kept it in the Temple of Zeus at Labraunda. The figure of a double-sided axe is a feature of many coins of Halicarnassus . Coins at the museum at Bodrum bear the head of Apollo on the obverse and on the reverse the name of the reigning Carian ruler inscribed next to the figure of Zeus ...
Lagina (Ancient Greek: τὰ Λάγινα) or Laginia (Λαγινία) [1] was a town and religious centre in ancient Caria.It contained an important monumental temple of Hecate, at which great festivals were celebrated every year. [2]
[11] (p 161) In Labraunda in Caria, as well as in the coinage of the Hecatomnid rulers of Caria, the double axe accompanies the storm god Zeus Labraundos. Arthur Evans notes, It seems natural to interpret names of Carian sanctuaries such as Labranda in the most literal sense as the place of the sacred labrys, which was the Lydian (or Carian ...
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Inscriptions show that he dedicated the temple of Zeus, the southern and eastern entrances (propyla), and built the so-called 'Doric house' (oikos). [6] Unlike Mausolus, Idrieus called himself ' Mylasan ' ( Ancient Greek : Ιδριεὺς Ἑκατόμνω Μυλασεὺς ) in his inscribed dedications, emphasising his local roots.
English: Labraunda, the name of the picture seems wrong, as the excavators' site indicates "It is not known whose tomb this was. On the other hand its plan and architectural organization relates it clearly to the Hekatomnid type of Mausolea and it would not be surprizing if this structure was built by and for a member of this family."
The apodyterium near the stadion Temple of Zeus. In Greek mythology, Nemea was ruled by king Lycurgus and queen Eurydice. Nemea was famous in Greek myth as the home of the Nemean Lion, which was killed by the hero Heracles, [1] and as the place where the infant Opheltes, lying on a bed of parsley, was killed by a serpent while his nurse Hypsipyle fetched water for the Seven against Thebes on ...
The name Mylasa, with the old Anatolian ending in -asa is evidence of very early foundation. On the basis of the -mil syllable found also in the name the Lycians called themselves Trmili, a theory connects the name of Mylasa with the passage of the Lycians from Miletus, also claimed to be a Lycian foundation under the name Millawanda by Ephorus, to their final home in the south.