The function of the Oikoi Building is not evident. It has been supposed that it served as a building for the priests of the sanctuary and as an archive, maybe a prytaneion (council house). It may also have served for ritual meals, in the same way as the two andrones and the East Stoa. A main purpose of the Oikoi Building may, however, have been as a treasury for the safe-keeping of valuable gifts to the god According to teh inscription: Idrieus, son of Hekatomnos, of Mylasa, dedicated the Oikoi to Zeus Lambraundos1.
Sources:
- George E. Bean, Turkey Beyond the Maeander. An Archaeological Guide, London Ernest Jersey 1971, p. 62 https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.62701
- Ekrem Akurgal, Ancient Civilisations and Ruins of Turkey: From Prehistoric Times until the end of the Roman Empire, Turkish Historical Society Press, Ankara 1970, p. 244-245
- https://www.labraunda.org/
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- ↑http://www.labraunda.org/Labraunda.org/Oikoi_Building_eng.html
