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Labraunda 6. The Oikoi

By Jesper Blid, Pontus Hellström and Riet Van Bremen

Abstract

This is the final publication of the Hekatomnid Oikoi at Labraunda. According to the dedicatory inscription on the architrave, it was built by Idrieus (351/0 to 344/3 BC), who was the brother of Maussollos and his successor as satrap of Karia. The excavations and the architecture of the building are systematically presented in the volume, together with plans and elevations of the building and reconstructions. A catalogue of marble blocks from the antae, the columns, the entablature, and the roof is included, as well as a large collection of photographs and drawings. The building consists of two rooms behind a porch. The walls are of local gneiss, and the front, which has four columns in antis, is of marble. The columns and the epistyle are Doric, but there is no triglyph frieze, and the geison is Ionic. The building is reconstructed with two separate roofs of marble: one pitched roof covering the portico and the northern room, and a separate pitched roof over the southern room. It is theorized that the smaller, northern room was a banquet room and the larger, southern room was a Hestia hall. The building may have served the purpose of a prytaneion. A phase of restoration appears to have followed in the Roman Imperial period. In Late Antiquity, probably during the 6th century AD, the Oikoi underwent an ambitious building project: piers of stone and brick were built at each of the four corners of the southern room to carry a domical brick vault. This room may have served as a mausoleum. In the northern room, a brick podium, possibly an altar, was built against the middle of the western wall. The two rooms may jointly have served as a martyrion. An inscription mentioning a hearth of Hestia is discussed in an appendix.

Contents

Acknowledgements, p. 9
Introduction, pp. 11–18
Chapter 1. Excavation, pp. 19–26
Chapter 2. Description and reconstruction, pp. 27–152
Chapter 3. Function and chronology, pp. 153–163
Appendix. A hearth of Hestia, pp. 165–169
Özet, pp. 171–174
List of figures, pp. 175–178
References, pp. 179–183
Indices, pp. 185–186

Bibliographical information

Jesper Blid, Pontus Hellström & Riet Van Bremen, The Oikoi (Labraunda 6), Stockholm 2026. ISSN 0283-9792. ISBN 978-91-978813-7-1. Hard cover, 186 pages.

The Labraunda-series

Published 1955–1972 by the Swedish Institute at Athens, since 1980 by the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul.

Vol. 1:1 = Jeppesen, K. 1955. Labraunda. Swedish excavations and researches 1. Architecture 1. The Propylaea (ActaAth-4˚, 5:1:1), Lund.

Vol. 1:2 = Westholm, A. 1963. Labraunda. Swedish excavations and researches 1. Architecture 2. The architecture of the Hieron (ActaAth-4˚, 5:1:2), Lund.

Vol. 1:3 = Hellström, P. & T. Thieme 1982. Labraunda. Swedish excavations and researches 1. Architecture 3. The Temple of Zeus, Stockholm.

Vol. 2:1 = Hellström, P. 1965. Labraunda. Swedish excavations and researches 2. Finds 1. Pottery of Classical and later date, terracotta lamps and glass (ActaAth-4˚, 5:2:1), Lund.

Vol. 2:2 = Säflund, M.-L. 1980. Labraunda. Swedish excavations and researches 2. Finds 2. Stamped amphora handles, Stockholm.

Vol. 2:3 = Jully, J.J. 1981. Labraunda. Swedish excavations and researches 2. Finds 3. Archaic pottery, Stockholm.

Vol. 2:4 = Meier-Brügger, M. 1981. Labraunda. Swedish excavations and researches 2. Finds 4. Die karischen Inschriften, Stockholm.

Vol. 2:5 = Gunter, A.C. 1995. Labraunda. Swedish excavations and researches 2. Finds 5. Marble sculpture, Stockholm.

Vol. 3:1 = Crampa, J. 1969. Labraunda. Swedish excavations and researches 3. Inscriptions 1. The Greek inscriptions. 1–12 (Period of Olympichus) (ActaAth-4˚, 5:3:1), Stockholm.

Vol. 3:2 = Crampa, J. 1972. Labraunda. Swedish excavations and researches 3. Inscriptions 2. The Greek inscriptions. 13–133 (ActaAth-4˚, 5:3:2), Stockholm.

Vol. 4 = Blid, J. 2016. Labraunda 4. Remains of Late Antiquity, Stockholm.

Vol. 5 = Hellström, P. & J. Blid 2019. Labraunda 5. The Andrones, Stockholm.

Vol. 6 = Blid, J., P. Hellström & R. Van Bremen 2026.  Labraunda 6. The Oikoi, Stockholm.