Labraunda is an ancient sanctuary in Karia close to the western coast in Anatolia, Turkey. It is situated on a high mountain in the vicinity of the modern city of Milas, ancient Mylasa. Its history goes back to the Hekatomnid period around 700 BC, but the main buildings belong to the vast building program of […]
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Fragments of wall decoration have been found during excavations of buildings at Labraunda. The present project regards studies of the materials that had been used for wall decoration from the Hellenistic period to late Antiquity. Fragments of mortar, plaster and wall decoration were found during recent excavations of Andron A, which is dated to the
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Marbres de Labraunda, in Anatolia Antiqua/Eski Anadolu XXIV, 2016, 348-350.
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White marbles at Labraunda. Conservation and research, in Ancient Quarries and Buildings in Asia Minor. Research on Hierapolis in Phrygia and other sites in spout-western Anatolia: archaeology, archaeometry, conservation, Bari 2016, 761-776.
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Marble trade in Antiquity – Looking at Labraunda, in Anatolia Antiqua/Eski Anadolu XXIII, 2015, 11-54.
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”Marble conservation project”, in (Olivier Henri et alii) Anatolia Antiqua/Eski Anadolu XXI, 2013, 322-327. Marble conservation and research at the Swedish excavation at Labraunda in 2012.
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”Conservation at Archaeological sites – Labraunda”, in Proceedings, 5th International Congress on ”Science and Technology for the Safeguard of Cultural Heritage in the Mediterranean Basin, Istanbul 22-25 November 2011, vol 1, 222-229. Rome 2012.
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How do we handle and take care of excavated marble that remains in open air environment at an archaeological site? Swedish excavations began at Labraunda in 1948. No digging was carried out between 1960 and 1988, that is, until Professor Pontus Hellström at Uppsala University received the permission to initiate a new excavation period. In
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