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Zeus Labraundos Temple on a Roman coin of emperor Geta from Mylasa In the 3rd century BCE, with the fall of the Hecatomnids, Labraunda passed into the control of Mylasa . The site was later occupied without discontinuity until the mid Byzantine period.
Labrandean Zeus (sometimes also named "Zeus Stratios") was one of the three deities proper to Mylasa, all named Zeus but each bearing indigenous characteristics. Of these, the cult of Zeus Carius ( Carian Zeus ) was also notable in being exclusively reserved, aside from the Carians, to their Lydian and Mysian kinsmen.
[citation needed] He was active at Labraunda, where he continued the Hellenistic style construction begun there earlier by Hecatomnus and Mausolus. Inscriptions show that he dedicated the temple of Zeus, the southern and eastern entrances (propyla), and built the so-called 'Doric house' (oikos). [6]
Aegis, Zeus' shield, often loaned to his daughter Athena, also used by Perseus. (Greek mythology) Shield of Ajax, a huge shield made of seven cow-hides with a layer of bronze. (Greek mythology) Ancile, the shield of the Roman god Mars. One divine shield fell from heaven during the reign of Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome. He ordered ...
A clear point of tension demanding mediation by Olympichos was the Mylasan claim of ownership over the sanctuary at Labraunda, which the priesthood of Zeus Labraundos contested. At thise time, the priest of Labraunda was a man named Korris (Κόρρις), who wrote to Seleucus in c. 242/1 BCE to retain the historical independence of Labraunda.
[10] (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 ...
Zeus Labrandos (Λαβρανδευς; "Furious, Raging", "Zeus of Labraunda"): Worshiped at Caria, depicted with a double-edged axe , a Hellenization of the Hurrian weather god Teshub Laphystius ("of Laphystium"), Laphystium was a mountain in Boeotia on which there was a temple to Zeus.
In the 4th century BC, a few Doric temples were erected with 6 × 15 or 6 × 14 columns, probably referring to local Archaic predecessors, e.g. the Temple of Zeus in Nemea [51] and that of Athena in Tegea. [52] Generally, Doric temples followed a tendency to become lighter in their superstructures. Columns became narrower, intercolumniations wider.