Editing Labraunda (section)

==Site==
The [[Swedish Institute at Athens]] has been in charge of archeology at Labraunda, notably in a series of campaigns in 1948-53, initiated by [[Axel W. Persson]] and taken up, after the latter's sudden death, by  Gösta Säflund, has published its findings in a long series, grouped as four volumes, from 1955 onwards. Reports documenting the archaeological fieldwork have been published in the ''Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome''.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2009-12-02 |title=Labraunda 2008 |url=http://ecsi.se/opathrom-02-04/ |access-date=2022-03-29 |website=Editorial Committee of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome |language=en-GB |doi=10.30549/opathrom-02-04|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=2010-12-02 |title=Labraunda 2009 |url=http://ecsi.se/opathrom-03-05/ |access-date=2022-03-29 |website=Editorial Committee of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome |language=en-GB |doi=10.30549/opathrom-03-05|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=2011-12-02 |title=Labraunda 2010 |url=http://ecsi.se/opathrom-04-03/ |access-date=2022-03-29 |website=Editorial Committee of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome |language=en-GB |doi=10.30549/opathrom-04-03|s2cid=166074173 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=2012-12-02 |title=Labraunda 2011 |url=http://ecsi.se/opathrom-05-03/ |access-date=2022-03-29 |website=Editorial Committee of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome |language=en-GB |doi=10.30549/opathrom-05-03|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Karlsson |first=Lars |date=2014 |title=Labraunda 2012-2013 |journal=Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome |volume=7 |pages=23–59|doi=10.30549/opathrom-07-03 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=2016-12-02 |title=The rock-cut chamber tombs of Labraunda |url=http://ecsi.se/opathrom-09-10/ |access-date=2022-03-29 |journal=Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome |language=en-GB |doi=10.30549/opathrom-09-10|last1=Roos |first1=Paavo |volume=9 |pages=271–284 |s2cid=135010545 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=2017-12-02 |title=The stadion of Labraunda |url=http://ecsi.se/opathrom-10-05/ |access-date=2022-03-29 |journal=Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome |language=en-GB |doi=10.30549/opathrom-10-05|last1=Roos |first1=Paavo |volume=10 |pages=107–127 |doi-access=free }}</ref> 

The hieron, one of the best-preserved and most complete series of 4th century BCE structures, contained a series of buildings of unusual construction, ranged on several formal terraces. In its synthesis of [[Achaemenid]] and [[Ionic order|Ionian]] features it foreshadowed [[Hellenistic]] style.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hellström |first=Pontus |title=The Andrones |publisher=Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul |year=2019 |isbn=978-91-978813-6-4 |location=Stockholm |language=English}}</ref>

The sacred precinct was entered through one of two marble Ionic ''[[propylea]]'' at the southeast corner of the site. The [[Ionic order|Ionic temple]] of [[Zeus]]<ref>Published by Pontus Hellström and Thomas Theime, ''Labraunda I.3, The Temple of Zeus'' Labraunda: Swedish Excavations and Researches) 1982. {{ISBN|91-970338-2-0}}</ref> bore a dedicatory inscription of the brother of [[Mausolus]], Idrieus (351-44 BCE);<ref>Fragmentary inscriptions on the ''propylea'' are also restored as dedications of Idrieus.</ref> it had a simplified, two-part [[architrave]], and a low ceiling to the small [[cella]].

As of 2018, the site was being excavated by an international team led by archaeologists [[Olivier Henry]] and [[Ömür Dünya Çakmaklı]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.labraunda.org/Labraunda.org/Team_eng.html|title=Team_eng|website=www.labraunda.org|access-date=14 April 2018}}</ref>