Labraunda is the site of the Sanctuary of Zeus Labraundos, situated in the mountains that overlook the Milas plain. It was one of the most significant sanctuaries in Caria, particularly during the 4th century BC when King Mausolus, the satrap of Caria, made Labraunda his family’s sanctuary.
Coordinates: 37° 25′ 8″ N, 27° 49′ 13″ E
The cult of Zeus Labraundos, known for its double-headed axe symbol, likely originated in the 7th century BC near a spring located just above the temple terrace. This site may have been selected as a sacred location due to the presence of a rock that appears to have been split in two by a thunderbolt.
Labraunda was located on a steep slope, which led to the construction of the buildings on a series of five artificial terraces. It was connected to the city of Mylasa (modern Milas) by a 7.5-meter-wide paved Sacred Way. Every year, a five-day sacrificial feast was celebrated at Labraunda.
The archaeological remains, dating from the 5th century BC to the 1st century AD, include the Temple of Zeus, two large andrones (ceremonial dining halls), two stoas, two Roman baths, several residences for priests, and a nymphaeum.
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Thank you deeply.
You took me home, where my father, and my father’s father was born, for hundreds of years, till our family was driven out by the Turks, who took over our homelands after the fall of the Eastern Roman empire, 1450’s C.E.
I am a Greek, and came by accident to your photograph with the ruins left and right of a stone walk. I froze on my tracks. “I know this place”, I said to my self. So I visited you.
I was both elated and sad, seeing and remembering…
Elated of my past, proud of what the Greeks were once, and sad of what has become to most of them after they were brutally made into christian sheep.
So much destruction, so much death.
Thank you for the joy you brought to my heart through your travel, your efforts, and your breath-taking photographs.
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