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616 EXCURSIONS TN CARIA.
modified by a later artist, probably from aesthetic
considerations. Zeus is bearded, and wears a talaric
chiton and peplos. He is advancing to the right,
holding in his right hand the labrys, which rests on
his shoulder; in his left lie holds a sceptre.1'
The labrys is a well-known type on coins of Caria,
and is sculptured on the keystone of a Roman gate-
way still standing at Mylasa.8
The temple of Zeus Stratios at Labranda must
have been to the Carian people what the temple of
Jupiter Latiaris on the Alban Mount was to the
Latin confederacy. Both these temples were
situated on the summit of lofty hills, and the pe-
riodical gatherings at their festivals must in either
case have given an opportunity of mustering the
whole of the population capable of bearing arms,
and thus have had a political importance.
I have already mentioned [ante, p. 48), that on
the occasion of the great annual pamegyris, held in
the temple at Labranda, an attempt on the life of
Mausolus was made by certain conspirators within
the Ilieron, and that it was in this spacious precinct,
and in a sacred grove of plane-trees attached to it
r Miomiet, iii. p. 357, Nos 314, 31G, 320, 324 ; Suppl. vii. p. 511,
Nos. 3G9, 372, 370, 377. Follows, Lycia, PI. xxxv. fig. 5.
According to yElian, do Nat. Anim. xii. 30, a sword hung by
the side of this statue, Etc to ayctX^ui ti<j>oc jrapjjprijrcH. Hence,
perhaps, the name Chrysaoreus, under which Zeus was worshipped
by the whole Carian race at the Chrysaorium near Stratoniccea.
On the Zeus Labrandenos, see ante, p. 33 ; also, Tresor dc
Numisnmtique et de Glyptiquc, Calorie Mythologique, pp. 51-6.
s Ionian Antiquities, ii., Plate 22. Fellows saw several sculptured
key-stones with this device at Mylasa.—Lycia, p. 75.
modified by a later artist, probably from aesthetic
considerations. Zeus is bearded, and wears a talaric
chiton and peplos. He is advancing to the right,
holding in his right hand the labrys, which rests on
his shoulder; in his left lie holds a sceptre.1'
The labrys is a well-known type on coins of Caria,
and is sculptured on the keystone of a Roman gate-
way still standing at Mylasa.8
The temple of Zeus Stratios at Labranda must
have been to the Carian people what the temple of
Jupiter Latiaris on the Alban Mount was to the
Latin confederacy. Both these temples were
situated on the summit of lofty hills, and the pe-
riodical gatherings at their festivals must in either
case have given an opportunity of mustering the
whole of the population capable of bearing arms,
and thus have had a political importance.
I have already mentioned [ante, p. 48), that on
the occasion of the great annual pamegyris, held in
the temple at Labranda, an attempt on the life of
Mausolus was made by certain conspirators within
the Ilieron, and that it was in this spacious precinct,
and in a sacred grove of plane-trees attached to it
r Miomiet, iii. p. 357, Nos 314, 31G, 320, 324 ; Suppl. vii. p. 511,
Nos. 3G9, 372, 370, 377. Follows, Lycia, PI. xxxv. fig. 5.
According to yElian, do Nat. Anim. xii. 30, a sword hung by
the side of this statue, Etc to ayctX^ui ti<j>oc jrapjjprijrcH. Hence,
perhaps, the name Chrysaoreus, under which Zeus was worshipped
by the whole Carian race at the Chrysaorium near Stratoniccea.
On the Zeus Labrandenos, see ante, p. 33 ; also, Tresor dc
Numisnmtique et de Glyptiquc, Calorie Mythologique, pp. 51-6.
s Ionian Antiquities, ii., Plate 22. Fellows saw several sculptured
key-stones with this device at Mylasa.—Lycia, p. 75.